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- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Elon Musk’s X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts::undefined
Elon Musk’s X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts::undefined
So wait, he’s stooped to being a shitty copy of Steve “spez” Huffman?
It’s the other way around. Spez is trying real hard to emulate the muskrat.
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/
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.