Young women following me on Twitter--why?

In My Humble Opinion
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And what do they want?

I’m a middle-aged straight guy. I’ve noticed that about three times a week, I get a new follower on Twitter and most of the time it is a young scantily-clad woman I’ve never heard of.

Is there a downside to having them follow me? The easiest choice is to do nothing, and I don’t see the harm in having more Twitter followers rather than fewer, but are they up to something harmful or dangerous that I’m unaware of?

I have no interest in engaging with them, in conversation or otherwise, and aside from following my Twitter account, I don’t have anything to do with them after they show up on my “notifications” page, so it seems harmless. But is it?

I assume others have experienced this phenomenon. Can you share your experiences? Do you actively block or delete them from your Twitter feed?

2

I’ve never worried about who follows me. I take their follow as just their way of advertising themselves. They were hoping you would want to follow them back.

3

There’s no scantily-clad women behind those, only scammers.

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And what’s the scam? Maybe 1% of their targets try to interact with them, and wind up sending them money or something?

5

Yep. Though there are a number of different scams possible, it’s always a scam.

6

Do a reverse image search on the profile pics. Ill bet you find more than one profile using that picture. Likely many more.

7

Since the cost of reaching them is next to zero, why not? But, as Chris Rock, says,

There is no sex in the champagne room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBWdzHu0BpM

8

Over the past year I have been getting frequent LinkedIn connection requests from young Asian women who claim to be working in fields not even remotely connected to mine. I figure someone is trying to catfish me and decline the request. No overtly sexy profile pics, but what I would call “attractive businesslike” clothing/poses.

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Another thing they may be doing is getting you to follow accounts that will push you towards other accounts, for influence purposes. A lot of these types of accounts can be misinformation accounts, which rack up a bunch of followers only to then switch to propaganda, or let people know which accounts are better propaganda targets.

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I get those, and they tend to come in spurts. There’s a good chance that they’re spambots that want to send you a link (or who have a link in their bio), purportedly to some naughty pictures, but which actually does something much more dangerous.

I just immedIately block them. I don’t care about followers, and why engage?

11

I get a lot of videos on FB of young women doing supposedly sexy dances and poses. Not sure what they’re after, but at age 75, I’m pretty sure it isn’t my body.

12

You do? I mostly get videos of people demonstrating woodworking tools.
I wonder what that says about me? :thinking:

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We had a related topic recently you may be interested in reading through.

~Max

14

Is that what kids are calling it these days?

15

Click on one dance video and you’re a perv for life, I guess.