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Anyone have a view of the percentage of accounts that are likely to be fakes/bots? Is this even a thing? Or is there some sort of verification on sign-up?

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Threads accounts are linked to Instagram accounts, so the same verification standards should apply. If there's one underrated thing Meta will do better than Twitter here, it's cut down on spam / bots used for astroturfing and algo manipulation.

1/3 of the accounts following me on instagram are bots… I get spam messages that try to get me to buy nudes every couple of months. I don’t think they’re that much better.

I have roughly similar numbers of followers and IG is a trash fire compared to Twitter and even less chance for a DM to be read.

That being said the biggest argument against Twitter is that there is no more Twitter. It's now legally X corp, aka Musk's wechat. Take that for what you will.

Whoah. I think the opposite. IG seems to me chock full of bots compared to Twitter, because you can't turn off the recommended feed in your face. I'm sure this mandatory recommendations thing will happen with Threads as soon as they feel like exploiting userbase.

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