On Twitter, what is the point of a bot that just follows a lot of people? What is to gain from this?

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It has skyrocketed lately: bots that just follow a bunch of people. And that’s all they do. They always have a female name and an attractive woman as a profile pic. They never make any posts, ever. They always follow hundreds or thousands of other people, and have 10 to 20 followers. As far as I can tell they all joined between July and November of 2023.

What’s the point? It’s gotta be some kind of scam, but what’s the scam?

Edit: I found one that actually made a post! https://i.imgur.com/ukAasU6.png Keep in mind this is the only post they ever made, and it is not in response to anything. It is just a stand-alone post.

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Those things are so annoying.

I’ll make replies on posts, and the only ‘likes’ I’ll get are from those damn bots.

I always go and block them, because it just feels scummy to have your only acknowledgement be a slutty, scammy, un-real bot.