It is usually a good news to have a new follower. But there are also exceptions. Let's have a look at follower bot, in steemit in a mintue...
Don't be happy too early! The increase in number of followers sometimes may not be a real natural growth as you thought. In some cases, it could be a bot who followed you on purpose.
For general users, it is not easy to find out who are the new followers. It is because the follower page on steemit list your followers simply in alphabetical order. There is no other indicators such as new or not.
Therefore, you may not aware you are in fact being followed by a bot easily.
As I introduced last time in this post.
How to get steemit events notified on mobile - steemit in a minute #34.
We may use GINABot to get updates of many steemit events, including new followers and unfollowers. Let's see an example...
Above is a snaphot of discord direct message received from @GINABot. We can see I had a new follower at 6:47AM. That new follower did unfollow me at 7:08AM on the same day!
Well, if this does not mean he/she is a bot, let us see the number of follows and followers or that particular account.
As of 6:47AM, this account followed 21,167 and being followed by 6,488 users.
As of 7:08AM, this account followed 18,948 and being followed by 6,500 users.
That means, this account successfully get 12 new followers in 21 minutes by massively following people with a chance of being followed back.
We can also see this account did unfollow 2,219 people in 21 minutes. This is likely for another round of new auto follow. In other words, this account will follow/unfollow you many times until you follow back.
So...what is the purpose of doing so? Let's have a look at the page of this account.
Apparently, the purpose is to resteem content to a large number of users. For this particular example, I did not find it charge for resteem yet. But there are many other examples out there on steemit who provide resteem service at a cost. The fee of resteem range from less than 1 SBD to 3 SBD depends on the number of followers.
Next time when you find someone did unfollow you, don't be so sad. It could be only a bot action.
Thank you for reading.
It seems the only ones active and upvoting on my posts are bots. I also know someone who started on steemit and then forgot his password. He found it a few months later and signed on -- he had more than 100 followers without posting anything at all.
Thanks for your sharing. I have been blogging for about 3 months here and got 100+ followers only, and likely many of them are bots!
I feel like about 80% of the followers I have are bots. Kind of sucks, but a follower is a follower no matter if they are bots or not Lol Will gladly accept all of them
Also I noticed that some of them will autofollow you if you post under a "specific" tag. Not really sure why they are doing this, but you might be right about the "resteeming services" thing.
I guess my case is even worse than 80%. As long as we don't follow back, there is nothing to lose at all. BTW, I don't suggest to use those resteeming services at the moment. May be I will write about my experience later on.
The only "resteeming service" I use is @resteemable. It resteems for free to almost 2.3k followers just by replacing "https://" with "re".
Oh, I didn't know there is free service! Thanks for this good tips.
Going through your list of posts, I can see a lot of useful information. Great idea to give people a lot of information in small chunks.
You've got yourself a new follower - a real one ;0)
I am so glad to have a real follower. Instead of playing with bots, I can interact a human then! You made me feel we do have a real community here on steemit. Thank you :)
But we do!
Why else would we stick around? For the money? Lol - guess not ;0)
You’re more than welcome to drop by our @newbieresteemday Discord channel. Meet the happy bunch of misfits of #newbieresteemday. We’re all about having fun ánd helping others where we can, no matter which rep score they have.
We talk to each other instead of to bots. Much more interesting - lol
I won’t always be there - busy, busy, as you probably know all about - but most of the time someone is.
Anyway, I’ll be keeping an eye out for your posts ;0)
Stupid, I forgot to add the link ;0)
https://discord.gg/h9WfHrE
Thanks for the link. See you there soon :)
Just checked out the comment section... you do have a lot of bot-fans - lol
Yes and their comments are boring 😂
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