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I have a year old lurker account on X. I've never made a single comment with it. But 35 attractive women are now following me. Zero men, zero unattractive women
by delichon 2y ago
I have a year old lurker account on X. I've never made a single comment with it. But 35 attractive women are now following me. Zero men, zero unattractive women. I doubt that it is the result of the animal magnetism of my likes.
It's a microcosm of the whole darned web.
- 93po 2y agoI feel like looking at this sort of behavior would make it really easy to spot bot accounts. I have the same thing happening on my account.
- EasyMark 2y agoI blocked a bunch of those accounts and the number of rando hot girls trying to get me to follow them dropped really quickly. You may give that a try. Maybe they have some very rough algo that does attempt to stop those follow varieties that you block a lot of
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoprobably the rando hot girls are all run by the same big bot farms, or bot farms sell suckers lists so if you are a sucker for one rando hot girl bot the others soon find out.
- EasyMark 2y agoThis could have been it, they could have been all under the same umbrella chud organization and it was really just one actor who spotted my account for some reason.
- sdenton4 2y agoThey're trying to simulate real accounts by following people. Blocks are likely a strong signal for anti spam. So if the spammers notice that you block bots, they won't want to burn accounts by following you, and will instead follow accounts that don't block bots.
- tim333 2y agoI expect if you chat to them you'll find they have some interesting crypto opportunities to invest in, from my experience. There's a lot of pig butchering stuff out there (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778486).