A full technical audit of a coordinated follower inflation network — methodology, findings, and a...
897 of 1,409 new DEV.to followers were coordinated fakes from upvote.club ($0.90/follow), all with Following=1 — a deterministic graph signature confirmed across the entire audited cohort. Dev platform follower counts are gameable at under $1/follow; detection requires only a single API query on the following_count field.
A full technical audit of a coordinated follower inflation network — methodology, findings, and a detection rule simple enough to run in one query.
On May 19, 2026, I published "Found a Coordinated GitHub Follow Botnet" — a piece documenting a coordinated follower inflation network on GitHub. The next day, my DEV.to follower count started climbing.
Fast.
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New Followers
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