Why were these weird accounts following a bunch of people on Spotify?

/ Many Spotify users noticed that they were being followed by accounts named ‘! lucasrpx’ and ‘! vitornovaes,’ so we tried to get to the bottom of it.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge

Somebody sent a strange tip about Spotify to The Verge on Wednesday.

The email, with the subject line “Spotify Hackers,” claimed that “Every English account in America has two new followers, ! lucasrpx and ! vitornovaes.” The tipster followed up two minutes later to share a screenshot showing the profile

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