Inside social media’s black market: Celebrities, athletes and politicians are buying millions of fake followers, while social media companies struggle to respondhttp://nyti.ms/2By9MQy
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The funniest part about this article is that
@nytimes has more fake followers than the majority of people they outedpic.twitter.com/HmwlDFKuBmThis media may contain sensitive material. Learn more
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I am proud to have 9 authentic followers.
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Release the nemo
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Bigger news. Twitter users are like 10% of all users. Rest are dead people, people who moved on to other sites and bots.
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Great reporting. Would love to see a follow up on this looking at fake
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Hi! Out of curiosity, how were the accounts that made use of the service outed? Was it through court documents or a leak?
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I'm sure
#Russia is involved somehow.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It often seems like these are accounts that were abandoned by the original users and then hacked and taken over.
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It's a really good investigation. Very interesting article.
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Follow less. Easy to manage.
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Here's some basics on identifying botshttps://twitter.com/pulsecheckmedia/status/957387465995771904 …
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In an age like this, publications like the Times is never more important. A sincere thank you to the people who wrote this and the Times for this article.
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Just found one of them using my name.
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