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Oct 8 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
It's always a great day to not buy used Twitter accounts from shady websites, and this batch of merchandise being sold by "VIP STORE" on accs-market(dot)com is particularly worthless. #FridayFail

cc: @ZellaQuixote screenshot of a list of Twitter and Instagram accounts for sthe profiles of six of the Twitter accounts for sale on accs
Although some of the accounts being sold have impressive numbers of followers (@nft_projects_s has just over 100 thousand), almost all of these followers are empty accounts created in September or October 2022. follower order by creation date plots for the six for-sale a
The empty accounts following the for-sale accounts are part a fake follower network associated with shady follower sales site sohsh(dot)com, described in more detail here:
The accounts being sold by "VIP STORE" were renamed sometime between May 2020 and today. (The source for the previous names is a dataset of older account profiles downloaded between March and May 2020, described here: ) table of the current and previous names of the accounts bein
This is not the first time that the user named "VIP STORE" has sold a batch of renamed Twitter accounts on accs-market(dot)com. Previous thread:
Here are the permanent IDs of the six accounts, in case they get renamed again:

@nft_red__ 250665031
@nft_projects_c 250916746
@gaming_pro_c 250440494
@nft_moon_x 251074174
@nfts_epic_1 243841811
@nft_projects_s 250447007

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