Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion Dollar Business

RougeFemme writes "There are more than two dozen companies that sell fake Twitter accounts. Those that sell them claim to make up to one million dollars per week. Two Italian security researchers estimate that there are as many as 20 million fake Twitter follower accounts. It's very difficult to tell the different between fake and real Twitter accounts saying, 'Some fake accounts look even better than real accounts do.'"

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Re:Someone's making money at this...not me, though

[hodet]

I don't understand. Your account is following people you never told it to follow? I can see having a bunch of bogus people following you but the other way around. My account has never randomly followed people I did not want it to follow.