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by NonIdentifiable 5779 days ago
Except they pretty much disproved the auto-follow stuff ...
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Uh, right. I'm sure he intentionally followed an escort service in Hyderabad. (Or, more likely, a spammy website that claims to be a Hyderabad escort service.) And one in New Delhi.

I might believe it if the escorts were from San Francisco, LA, Vegas. But India? It seems unlikely that he's a frequent visitor to India in a context where he'd want to link escort services in two cities there.

Please. Web savvy fail. Most likely somebody with a 'circle jerk' ring of bogus escort sites spammed twitter accounts and hit this guy's, and he didn't pay attention to it.

How did they disprove it? By showing that a lot of these follows happened close to each other? That seems perfectly explainable if one escort agency decided to start spamming and let their bots loose promoting several of their models at the same time.