It happens to me on Steemit whenever I post any sequel to my Journey to the West. I am cycling from HK to France with my girlfriend. I really got shocked to see that whenever I post anything about it, my subscriber count increases by 30+. At the start it was 20 and then I got something like 80 and today I have 190+. The rate of increase decrease over time so I am less suspicious about bots. Besides, what is the gain of the creator of those bots to subscribe to me, as I am a newcomer on Steemit and don't have much content yet. My theory is that my new posts gets to the top of New Posts when you enter the Steemit homepage. A lot of people may see my title and some really subscribed.
Interesting, some sort of auto-follow bot loop then to get followbacks I imagine
It happens to me on Steemit whenever I post any sequel to my Journey to the West. I am cycling from HK to France with my girlfriend. I really got shocked to see that whenever I post anything about it, my subscriber count increases by 30+. At the start it was 20 and then I got something like 80 and today I have 190+. The rate of increase decrease over time so I am less suspicious about bots. Besides, what is the gain of the creator of those bots to subscribe to me, as I am a newcomer on Steemit and don't have much content yet. My theory is that my new posts gets to the top of New Posts when you enter the Steemit homepage. A lot of people may see my title and some really subscribed.