The winner of the Greatest Content material Creator award at a crypto occasion in Singapore has deleted his X (previously Twitter) account after being accused of utilizing bots to govern his social metrics.
Professor Crypto collected his Key Opinion Chief (KOL) award yesterday night at considered one of Token2049’s aspect occasions, DeGen Summit. He then shared this success on X.
Nonetheless, his now-deleted celebratory put up prompted crypto sleuth ZachXBT to level out that Professor Crypto seemingly makes use of hundreds of bots.
“It might be a good idea to lay off the thousands of bots you use on all social media platforms to deceive people into thinking you have an influence,” stated ZachXBT.
He additionally linked to a Federal Commerce Fee regulation that “prohibits anyone from selling or buying fake indicators of social media influence, such as followers or views generated by a bot or hijacked account.”
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Professor Crypto deleted his X account shortly after wiping a variety of posts associated to his KOL win. He additionally hid dozens of posts from customers claiming that they don’t observe anybody who’s following Professor Crypto and even know who he’s.
Certainly, functi0nZer0 stated, “I have been here longer than the stars have burned, and I have precisely *one* mutual with this account (someone I added within the last week).”
One other consumer, NewsyJohnson, additionally famous they’ve zero mutals with Professor Crypto regardless of following over 1,100 accounts and having virtually 20,000 followers.
NewsyJohnson claimed Professor Crypto has bots following, liking, and commenting on his content material. They stated, “I don’t think he has any human following.”
Professor Crypto on THAT crypto airplane
Professor Crypto was additionally onboard the Qatar Airways flight to Singapore that appeared extra like a celebration than any networking occasion.
Throughout the flight seatbelt security indicators have been ignored as passengers danced within the aisles whereas Redacted co-founder Shan Kumar implied that the crew could not have anticipated the mid air antics.
He stated, “You know what, the Qatar Airways staff are like this is the last time we’re ever gonna host a Web3 plane and to be honest, that was the goal.” This specific video has since been deleted from X.
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