Bot followers?
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I’ve been getting followed by, what I believe to be, a bot follower. He shows up as “ysweightloss.com” and the site is always down. Most of his posts in reader all come from January 19th, 2018 and nothing since. He/it never comments, never ‘likes’, only follows. I keep on removing this person/bot as a follower, but it keeps on coming back. At this point, it’s merely a nuisance to have to constantly remove it, but the larger issue is if there is software that can crawl a wordpress site and follow it?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi –
ysweightloss.com isn’t connected to a WordPress.com user account. Are they following you through email subscription? Or can you provide a username for them?
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Thanks for responding so quickly! No, it’s not an email follow, but a regular follow. I did some research and it may be under Simon Weiner. Here’s his gravatar it it helps, but it’s linked to his ysweightloss site:
https://en.gravatar.com/ysweightlossLooks like Simon Weiner is associated with another site, as discussed here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followers-that-are-spam-and-have-objectionable-pictures/
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Hi there,
Thanks for the additional details, with that information we were able to determine that the account was being used to generate follower spam and blocked the user.
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