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@312 @CEO of Monoeye Dating
If I join Threads and then immediately get a contact proposal from several persons, then it should be reasonable to assume that these people also have a Threads account. This is what I mean by 'creating a hype'. It makes people believe there are more users than there are, and -probably more important- it makes people believe that others in their immediate environment are among these users. This is obviously not true, though. The hype is created while individual people are looking on their phones, the published user counts are additional PR.
I admitt these accounts are not what we typically call 'shadow accounts', but in the end this is nitpicking imo. They're creating a highly biased picture.