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Throughout history, great men have amassed a huge following from doing good deeds, saying amazing things that get quoted until the end of time, and making their mark in the world. Followers carry their mission forward.

@matt6701 is not one of those great men. He’s working really hard on the followers part of the equation, but is missing the most important piece – a great message. Once all these people start following you, @matt6701, what do you have to say?

We’ll tell you what’s on his mind:  stealing your credentials and taking over your twitter account. Firefox throws up a warning when clicking on each of those links:

This web site at addfollowers.net (and morefollowers.info, needfollowers.com, followadd.net)  has been reported as a web forgery and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Web forgeries are designed to trick you into revealing personal or financial information by imitating sources you may trust.

Entering any information on this web page may result in identity theft or other fraud.

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Why would anyone want to steal your twitter credentials? To spread a virus, perhaps. (Remember Mikeyy?) Maybe he just wants to spread false rumors, or make you look stupid. Or attempt to trick your friends into sending money to help you out. Only it’s not you.  (Happens more often than you’d believe.)

Okay, so he’s targeting people who are amassing a huge following for the sole purpose of having a huge following. Maybe they weren’t popular in school, or are compensating for low self-esteem, or a physical inadequacy. Point and laugh if you like, or exploit them like we do, but  some people need huge numbers to give their life meaning. And, without them, we wouldn’t have this post. So, thank you, clueless tweeps for providing us with content, once again.

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