0x815@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agoMeta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadowsnewsie.socialexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1163arrow-down1external-linkMeta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadowsnewsie.social0x815@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years agoOkay, but that still means their user count is fake.
minus-squareNaN@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 years agoInstagram has over a billion users. Their user count is the number of Instagram users that have activated threads. If you follow someone who hasn’t, it will automatically follow them if they do activate. That doesn’t mean they created some shadow profile.
Okay, but that still means their user count is fake.
Instagram has over a billion users.
Their user count is the number of Instagram users that have activated threads.
If you follow someone who hasn’t, it will automatically follow them if they do activate. That doesn’t mean they created some shadow profile.