I came across this the other day: https://github.com/LinuxJS

You can see the account mass follows other accounts (201k following?). I created a script that auto-blocks and removes these accounts. It removed over 50(!) accounts from my profile. A good 10%-20% of all the people that follow me are bots!

My question is why? Why follow an impossible number of people? What does that accomplish?

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    2 days ago

    201k followings is insane! I’ve seen some GitHub account that do this but not to this extent. As to why, I am really not sure. It’s not like they’ll sell the account like with IG or other places