AnneTheWriter<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@wendynather" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wendynather</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>briankrebs</span></a></span> </p><p>I've never even been on <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Threads</span></a>, but someone who has, once told me that I have a Threads account. But in order to delete it, I will need to delete my <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> account also.</p><p>That's not worth the time and effort for me, so it's apparently a <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BotAccount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BotAccount</span></a> for <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuckerberg</span></a> now, to fake-inflate his user-account numbers.</p><p>Some time back, while I was still on <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Xitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xitter</span></a>, I caught <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> forcing my account there to follow him-- TWICE-- until I had to block him. (I know <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Elmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elmo</span></a> had been trolling me personally, so I had been taking a bit of joy in the fact that my account was irritating him, and had been reluctant to block before that.)</p><p>I wonder how many of the empty Bot accounts like mine have been automatically set to follow <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Suckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Suckerberg</span></a>. I wouldn't be shocked if they were. Those guys are all about their own egos and falsely inflating their numbers.</p>