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Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?
Even allowing people to follow that account?
Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.
They did this with Facebook accounts to instagram too. My brother has never downloaded instagram yet he's my top follow suggestion all the time and it just uses his Facebook profile picture automatically
It’s funny how people continue to think that joining threads is optional.
yuck!
They already advertised this in a way though.
I think one of the links for IG is Threads.instagram.con
That alone made me think they’re going to end up finding a way to merge the two or make them paired.
i knew accounts were being automatically created and thats why i don't believe the numbers
I don't see anybody posting there after the first day, save for brand and meme pages
So it's made of mostly fake accounts from Instagram. That has to be the shadiest thing I've seen from a social media app. Just making "shadow" accounts from other social media apps to artificially boost it's analytics.
I especially noticed this as someone that lives in the EU and decided to check it out using a VPN. 90% of my friends are also from inside the EU and can't download the app but they were all in my list of suggested people.