The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Twitter is making me follow random people Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 3 months ago. Active 4 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 73k times. Improve this question. Not hacked and it still happens. Twitter has a problem — user I'm also not hacked after changing my password and revoking all the app access , and having this same problem.
My account starts following random people, sometimes one or two a day. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. As the Twitter Help Center Page states, here are some common things that happen when you are hacked: Noticed unexpected Tweets by your account Seen unintended direct messages DMs sent from your account Observed other account behaviors you didn't make or approve like following, unfollowing, or blocking Received a notification from us stating that "You recently changed the email address associated with your Twitter account.
Yoko Taro follows me. I misread. This is random. I think I had some J-rockers follow me randomly back when i was adding a lot of popular ones. Obviously these were from not so popular bands. I think i followed back. Last edited: Mar 28, LionPride Banned. Oct 25, 12, I have like random espn and BR writers following me, tis weird.
Fuzzy Completely non-threatening The Fallen. Oct 25, 13, Toronto. Taye Diggs follows me I have no idea. ElectricBlanketFire What year is this?
Oct 25, 26, They want more followers and will unfollow you if you don't follow back. ZackieChan said:. P-MAC Member. Nov 15, 3, Christina Milian liked 2 of my pictures on Instagram the other day, didn't follow me though.
That was completely random as I wasn't even following her, hadn't liked anything of hers, and hadn't posted anything with a hashtag in a while. Genuinely have no idea how she found me and the two pics she liked weren't that recent either. Oct 25, 67, No one but bots follow me, maybe because I don't tweet. Aeriscloud Banned. Oct 25, 2, Florida.
FUME5 said:. Cocolina Member. Oct 28, 6, I don't use Twitter but this happens on LinkedIn. Red UFO Member. Barack Obama has followed me for few years now. I do not know why. I do not follow him. Daffy Duck said:. Hahahaha me too at one point! Aquavelvaman Member. Not on twitter but a very famous and important person follows me on another site. Jan 23, 2, Xavillin Member.
Oct 25, 1, But then again, I followed him, and I think he follows back everyone. Yebele Member. Nov 2, 1, So they are bots doing this? He has k followers, another one was some CEO of a massive American company, they all have verified ticks which made me think WTF, why am I so special to get all these random follows.
Tamath Member. Oct 31, Vienna, Austria. I got followed by Andrew W. It doesn't mean anything, it's just another follow from somebody hoping for a reciprocal follow back to help increase modern life's seemingly only relevant high score, which is your follower account. Glad I got rid of Twitter where I only had followers or so and I'm pretty sure 90 of those were bots or inactive human accounts. SteveWD40 Member. Oct 29, Not that famous, but Karen Clifton dancer from Strictly Come Dancing UK started following me out of the blue on Instagram, thought it was weird as she isn't famous enough to have a community manager I would have thought.
Jessie Member. Removing a follower doesn't stop them from refollowing you later if you set your account to public. In this case, you need to take stronger measures.
If a stranger or someone you know is following you on Twitter and you want to block them:. Select the down arrow icon located at the top of a Tweet from the account you wish to block. Select Block. Select Block again to confirm. Now the blocked account can't follow you or view your tweets. Use a service such as StatusPeople's Fake Follower Check to see what percentage of your followers are fake, real, or inactive.
There are many reasons for someone you don't know to follow you on Twitter. They may admire and connect with your wit, point of view, and humor, or they may have you confused with someone else. Sometimes a random person might follow you in order to get a follow in return. This is a common practice for people who want to build up their followers. More followers means more visibility, whether you just want attention or genuinely have something to promote.
Not all random people have innocuous reasons for following you on Twitter. Hackers and internet criminals may send out malicious Twitter bots to follow you. Malicious bots spread links to malware. These links are often disguised as shortened links so that the dangerous link is obscured from view. Before you click on a random short link on Twitter, use a link expansion service to inspect it so you can decide whether its destination is somewhere you really want to go.
Random followers might also be spammers, who use every possible avenue, including Twitter feeds, to spread their messages. Spammers follow a massive number of accounts hoping for follow-backs, increasing their audience. If you report a tweet as spam, Twitter blocks the user from following you or replying to you but doesn't automatically suspend the account.
It's easy to report spammers to Twitter. Select Followers from your Twitter home page, and then select the button to the left of the Follow button and choose Report. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content.
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