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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So wait, he's stooped to being a shitty copy of Steve "spez" Huffman?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the other way around. Spez is trying real hard to emulate the muskrat.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, Spez used fake users to make Reddit seem bigger than it was back when it started. He discusses this in an online course.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing, it seems like a standard strategy for back in the day when you didn't have all the metrics investors seem to want now.