It’s not just crypto exchange data that’s being manipulated. Tron Founder Justin Sun recently bragged about his popularity on Twitter, saying he was the “first one in [the] crypto world to break through 1 million” followers.
Indeed, Sun’s Twitter profile displays 1.01 million followers, which surpasses those amassed by many of his peers, including chief rival Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin, who boasts 842,000 followers. As one Twitter bot researcher pointed out, however, a common thread throughout many of Sun’s new follower accounts is that they are suspicious in nature.