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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (29 children)

By automatically signing up Instagram users.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

If it's automatic shouldn't the number of user be the same as the number of Instagram user?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When you login initially it offers to follow all your Instagram follows. Even if they've never logged in. Its creating shadow accounts for all of them.

When they login initially they find they already have a bunch of followers.

So it's not all of Instagram. It's just all the people who've tried it + all the people they tried to follow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So you're saying they are going out of their way to commit fraud on a scale that would trigger an SEC investigation of a publicly traded company, rather than you just making up the way something works? You do understand how you can have such placeholders not be included in the number of active users...right?

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