Not too long before spam accounts will start following people to inflate follow counts.
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Yes when social media really got going, profile farms made a killing selling follows. I remember at a previous employer being asked to vet a business as a potential partner. I looked at their Twitter profile, 125,000 followers. I browsed the followers and they all looked like a Bitcoiner’s Twitter DM’s of fake looking Asian bots. We passed on the deal. They might have been okay, but I don’t want to do business with anyone who buys followers.
That’s very interesting and I agree, might need a tool that looks at the
Followers list to identify NIP verified followers from certain domains. On Twitter I guess the entry barrier is the phone number and email, but I think the phone number can be reused to create fake accounts.
Phone numbers are cheap for what they charge customers.
