Due to virtually no discussion/exposure of this problem on steemit I am reposting this
I don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but I have noticed that for the last couple of months there are some mysterious accounts which automatically start following posters within the first seconds of creating a post
This wasn't the case, say like a half a year ago.
Let me show you what I mean:
Using Steem Followers https://steem.makerwannabe.com/ you can see who has started following someone.
If you make a post and get a follower in the first few seconds chances are high that this following comes from a bot account, like 
There are dozens of these accounts (hundreds?!) with the only purpose of following authors of newly created content.
Some of these accounts follow almost 100k people!
In fact, more than 90% of my followers in the last few months are bots! 😳😳
Now the obvious question that I have is: why?
If the answer is that it artificially creates a feeling of being followed which in turn motivates people to create content, this is a terrible idea...
Sure, it is hard to stay with Steemit if you are new and trying to figure things out. But will this be fixed by fake accounts that are deluding people into thinking that someone is interested in their content? I don't think so... True power for a social media platform always comes from real people.