@withersailor@aussie.zone to

Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake

47

Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake

@withersailor@aussie.zone to

Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

An internal investigation by IRL's board of directors found that 95% of the app's reported 20 million users were "automated or from bots."

HotTopNewOld

Chat

style99
link
fedilink
2•2 years ago
Imagine being one of those 1 million monthly active users just realizing that you were talking to a bot most of the time.

Technology@beehaw.org

!technology@beehaw.org

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@beehaw.org

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

68 users / day
202 users / week
669 users / month
2.19K users / 6 months
2 subscribers
3.85K Posts
75.9K Comments
Modlog