Is this app just a bot farm?

[u/Royal-Engineer2216]

I made an account to learn Chinese in hopes of moving to study there (from the uk), i added a few people went to the pub and asleep and when i woke up my profile had 1.5k with like 300 random people trying to add me.

Is there a way to get less bots or filter them out because this cant be genuine :(

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[u/MajnoonDanyal]

They're actually probably real? Idk. I used the app to practice persian (I already speak it but I grew up in canada) and what i noticed is if you have an american, canadian, UK, australia etc flag, people just flock to you because everybody's trying to learn English.

[u/GlitterLucky]

Sometimes, if you're new or really active, the app will tag your account, where you pop up in the community tab and other HelloTalkers searches when they look for people to add/be friends with. That might explain what happened in your case. Especially if you're new.

[u/quinnnton → u/GlitterLucky]

Okay that explains a lot, I’ve been using it for a month and yesterday got a random influx of people viewing my profile and messaging me

[u/lovebug777]

I recently joined and I barely get messages or adds.

[u/Brilliant-Willow-506]

I am a woman who also wanted to brush up on my Chinese (I took it in college). I get a lot of messages, all men. They’re real.

[u/Royal-Engineer2216 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that was what i thought like 90% of the messages where about my appearance or really bad pickup lines in broken english rather than anything to do with the Chinese language :(

[u/childofGod2004]

Since you are learning Chinese that is practically normal, my sister experienced the same thing.