I noticed these accounts are following a lot of ppl on Spotify including me nd it doesn’t seem like I’m the only one from looking on social media. Does anyone have an answer to this? Bots maybe, ppl spam following?
One of them is following me, but with a bunch of extra spaces after the exclamation point.
I don’t usually check my followers, but I happened to be in there a couple days ago. The only person following me then was my wife, so this bot/spam is relatively new.
Wtf me too - the Lucas one plus all the spaces. I never even really use Spotify. Creepy.
Edit they are literally my only follower aside from one single friend I know irl.
Could possibly be OF bots. You reddit users, remember the bots that would follow you every week or so and had to disable following?
… you can follow people on Spotify?
Yup
What does it do? Do you like… see what they’re playing? You listen along or something?
Yep, you can see what song they’re playing if you follow each other. Not sure if it does anything else
For me, I follow several artists and it gives updates on when they uploaded a new album etc etc And I follow my siblings and could see what they’re listening to, live, if I activated the sidebar but I’m just here to listen to music
That first part works without following personal accounts too. I don’t follow anyone but I get notified when the bands I listen to release new albums. Besides that, I use the release radar playlist.
Not a lot. Yes you can see what they are playing and they use it to make recommendations for you.
I think the primary motivator for Spotify is just data scraping. Everybody wants to know your circle of friends in order to advertise better towards you.
I have set the list of people following me and the ones i follow on private now. This seems to be the only useful thing they could scrape. Why would i care if they can see what music i listen to? It’s not like they can see my personal info and link that or is it?
Switched what off? I have my settings about as private as I can do, yet one of those accounts had followed me without me knowing. I blocked them now but I’m not sure what setting you’re referring to, in order to prevent some random bot from following you on Spotify?
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They’re
a. Fascinated with your content and commentary
b. Bots
Oh no, not Lucas!
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Damn… I never even considered that being a thing but it makes so much sense hearing it.
There are multiple copies of them too it seems because the ones that are following me have slightly different display names
The two (also slightly different names) I see on my Spotify have a “Viral songs on tiktok” playlist in their profile. So it’s probably a way to spread/spam songs around?
I checked after seeing this post. Same for me. They had a slightly different names
I didn’t even know people could follow me on Spotify. These two were the only ones.
Same
That’s not really what the word “followers” means.
