Accepting or allowing unknown followers gives strangers and bots access to your content and patterns. Curating who can follow you keeps your audience to people and accounts you actually want.
“Not every follower is a fan. Some are gathering data.”
Don't Accept Every Follower
The takeaway
Unknown followers can be data-gathering bots.
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