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After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts (www.dailydot.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This might be one of Twitter's automatic security features I'd heard about a while back (prior to the Musk takeover). Supposedly, Twitter stops accounts from getting a large amount of followers in a short amount of time to try to limit botting. Sometimes, rarely, it can trigger when a large amount of real people follow a real account.

I think I heard about it when I ran into the issue myself, but I don't remember what account it was that I was trying to follow.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Go away with your sensible explanations, we have conspiracy to uncover.