This is always the part I'm interested in too, and can't help but believe the initial user base is always faked with a few hundred bots, and slowly phased out a

This is always the part I'm interested in too, and can't help but believe the initial user base is always faked with a few hundred bots, and slowly phased out as real people stumble in. There's no way anything starts just with 10 people or family and friends using it. The common person will immediately back out on suspicion.