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Wouldn't be surprised if 90% of their amazing growth is actually spammers creating accounts by the million daily.

The interesting thing is that Pinterest founders have an incentive to look away, while promoting their growth to the VCs, raising massive rounds whilst potentially cashing out big time. Tumblr seems to be going a similar route, maybe its a Twitter-initiated trend of bot-generated companies?)



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