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If you look at who that account is following, there seems to be a whole network of people using accounts with names close to (or impersonating) celebrities who
by sbarre 15y ago
If you look at who that account is following, there seems to be a whole network of people using accounts with names close to (or impersonating) celebrities who all re-tweet each other and promise "10 follow-backs for each follow" and "if you follow <random> I'll follow you" etc.
Looks like either some kind of weird social hack/club or I don't know what..
This account has close to 1M followers, and appears to be in that same network or loop of spammy follower-harvesting group..
https://twitter.com/#!/CraveMyThoughts https://twitter.com/#!/CraveMyThoughts
- danielamitay 15y agoActually, that account looks pretty legit (in the sense that it's not 100% bot generated). Look at Swagstro's follower list [1], and Cmd/Ctrl-F for "holic", "fanatic", "introvert", "bacon", "wannabe". Almost all of the accounts are simply randomly generating the Lorem Ipsum of Twitter descriptions. [1] https://twitter.com/#!/Swagstro/followers https://twitter.com/#!/Swagstro/followers
- reledi 15y agoThis makes me wonder if Twitter is ever going to crack down on these spam accounts, or put in place some preventive measures. Right now it's really encouraging for spammers to create these accounts and sell their services. There's still lots of room for improvement in these bot accounts, currently they're still too easy to detect.