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by lucberlin 4305 days ago
What possible value can be derived from following 300K people in an hour? Well, beyond the technologically "cool" effect.
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Actually there is massive community in Twitter which follow back your requests very fast.

When you obtain their id's, this bug let you grown an account very fast.

Actually in this post, i want to point out the Twitter's kind move and how it leads really big bug.

Creating an account that now has 40k followers. Not sure what value there is in that... but someone might care.
Bots following bots...
@cornewut not exactly. I created a fan account for GalatasaraySK, and i followed their last 500k followers. Now my fan account has 40k followers ( gaining 2-3 every sec ) and getting really interactions.
Collecting data as a bot for some advertising scheme?