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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts (mashable.com)
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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts::undefined

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[–] SoyTDI@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

When you register, Twitter/X asks you to follow a popular account. He is one of then. The problem is that maybe those accounts are used once to see Twitter content and then forgotten. They could be used to login in a different website. I don't doubt that he has many bots following him, but inactive bots are useless.