Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne saw her Instagram account quadruple subscribers for a few moments, to reach… 49,300 (49.3 K) subscribers.
But what happened with Elisabeth Borne, whose Instagram account suddenly experienced a membership peak of 12,300 to 49,300 subscribers this Sunday? A video at McFly & Carlito? No, and then the duo takes a break. A visit to Cyril Hanouna? Neither. An unlikely feat with rapper Booba? Also lost. The joke is actually the work of a rather clever Internet user, who artificially inflated the number of followers of the head of government.
An account that has “limited” to 49.3 K subscribers
It only took Twitter user @EstChauve a few hours to take up his daring bet. Sunday afternoon, he chose snack time to challenge Twittos: ” If this tweet reaches 50 likes, I send 27,000 subscribers to Élisabeth Borne so that she has exactly 49.3 K subscribers “.
If the Internet user made a small mistake on the number of subscribers to add, the stretched pole worked for the blue bird, since it took him less than an afternoon to explode his counter and thus maintain his bet.
At 8:08 p.m., @EstChauve sent his congratulations to the Prime Minister for his 49,300 subscribers. The latter managed to gain 37,000 subscribers to the Instagram account of the former boss of the RATP to offer her a nice reference, with a number of subscribers that corresponds to her new use of 49.3, this article-paragraph of the Constitution that she has decided to initiate for the eleventh time since her appointment less than a year ago, this time as part of the pension reform.
No, the Prime Minister will not (immediately) become an influencer made in Matignon
The score obtained by Elisabeth Borne obviously did not amuse her teams. The Prime Minister’s account has since been displayed in “private”, whereas it was accessible to all Internet users until then. The number of subscribers is gradually falling, being below 30,000 on Monday afternoon.
As he reveals to another Twitter user who asked him how he did it, the joker admitted to having paid to carry out the deception. If it can vary, it is often estimated that the purchase of fake followers is very inexpensive, of the order of a few tens of euros for several hundred or several thousand additional subscribers.
The practice is obviously not recommended, as social networks are better and better equipped to detect these fake accounts, deleted by the millions each year around the world. The joke, however, will have worked.
Sources: Clubic, Twitter, Release
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