Is it AI that has some one who supposedly joined a few months ago to have 2k, 3k, or more followers? Plus I'm getting followed by writers of tech or business promotion and the like, not at all who I suspect would have any interest in what I write. And they have massive followers in but a couple of months. I hate it. Clogging the system? Yes. It's f*cking annoying.
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An educator and juvenile justice advocate writing about life, love, justice, environment, and greening my grandchildren for a future I'll never see.
I so understand your annoyance, KM. It's been many months since most of the new people who follow me couldn't care less about what I write. They're people who follow me just in the hope that I'll follow them back, so as to swell their followers'…
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I appreciate this insight. And I really like the idea of a base metric to follow. I've long suspected follows and if you follow back they unfollow. I'm starting to systemically ignore the sketchy follows. I guess I can block? For now I'll focusing…
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