Scientists who buy followers are extra amusing.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html?mtrref=t.co&gwh=4E2905AE46CC69B27B375042BBC5EADA&gwt=pay …
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BTW you can find out how many followers of yours (or others'!) are fake! Amused by some results in the past myself. https://fakers.statuspeople.com/
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with this regexp '*.*' ?

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I'm still confused, but I knew all along what a Kleene star was and what regular expressions are.

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twitter is a bot playground ! `how many followers of yours (or others'!) are fake!` likely *.* followers @
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... https://github.com/piroor/tweet.sh
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are you one?
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I now seriously think some of the scientists I follow have purchased their large number of followers

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You can check that, surely. Are there not websites?
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I think she thinks that because I linked her to such websites.
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However, I think it should be underlined that the method outlined above is likely not the same as those websites.
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