Hoaxsters bought us 75,000 fake followers in a new kind of Twitter attack
Aside from a phishing attack by the Syrian Electronic Army and a few fraudulent pizza orders from 4chan users, most of the threats the Daily Dot and its reporters have received over the past two and half years have been bogus. But the one we received Monday was the most peculiar to date. A social media marketing firm threatened to flood the Daily Dot’s Twitter account with fake followers. And we knew these guys could deliver.
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