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Re:Twitter Lost $60M a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Acco... by moremetadata on Saturday February 18, 2023 @11:53AM (#34848390)
I think this TikTokker found out to her peril that a million followers many of them bots can be expensive and humiliating.

Same TikTokker different Reddit Threads. https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/vkv8hu/aww_th... https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe/comments/wf1a0k/nigerian_...

Still those bots probably helped make TikTok popular and probably helped boost stock prices, like we see with other social media platforms and even SuperStonk!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/

If you or someone you know has a social media presence with people you dont know, do the <s>computer</s> bots say no?

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