Hi,

This is no spam. Spam consists in throwing repeatedly a message indiscriminately to a large number of users, and often automatically. We used to spam to get known, but we quickly got flagged, so we stopped immediately.

For this one, the message is personal, relevant to the subject, as @ned asks to follow him on social media, which is precisely our target. We finally answer by saying we do follow him, and give an information that may interest him.

Finally, we didn't pay any bot. @cardboard, who isn't affiliated to us, did.

Regards.