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Elon’s fake followers

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

We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

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I’ve had a twitter account for years and never tweet or like anything. It’s a pain to view without being logged in.
- The article goes through some of the available data and doesn't make hard conclusions, nothing that many of the accounts with no followers or posts are likely lurkers, amongst the bots and others.
  
  Yeah I noticed that, I think a lot of accounts that appear to be bots or empty are just lurkers like me. It's still the best place for sports news and updates.