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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake

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Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

An internal investigation by IRL's board of directors found that 95% of the app's reported 20 million users were "automated or from bots."

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Why not double down and also have bots click on the ads to drive up the number of impressions too? It’s a self sustaining economy.

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