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January 28, 2018 01:38 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YA0Ls7Xi0k8/growth-and-ad-campaigns.html
New York Times profiles a sleazy Twitter follower-farm, the sleazy serial liar who made millions on it, and the celebs, politicians, sports figures and "influencers" who paid him
Devumi is a sleazy Twitter-bot farm founded by German Calas, a serial liar who buys wholesale Twitter bots from even scummier bottom-feeders than him, and pays a series of low-waged patsies to direct them to follow people who want to seem more popular and influential than their actual Twitter follower-count suggests. (more…)
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