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You hit the nail on the head.

Most twitter account followers are nothing but bots. Millions of 'followers' but likes and retweets only in the dozens.

It also makes for huge egos. Like, they know they bought all their followers, but they wake up one day and forget, and start to believe their own bullshit.

To be fair it is everywhere, youtube accounts will millions of followers do the same. Never more than 200 comments or likes on them.

Seems to me the only organic accounts are the ones with only a few K.

I assume anything with 100k-1 million followers is 95% bots.

No one ever thought it was odd that these accounts all got their million followers in the first few days of acct creation, then literally didnt gain any more ever?

Or how odd it is that every celebrity or business just happened to hit 1mil+?



I got 0 engagement with hundreds of real followers by the end, but the situation got worse every year with a tangible nosedive in the new era. This was a carefully curated following where I blocked and reported every bot that showed up. The problem is Twitter.


Low engagement does not absolutely equate paid bots. Twitter is ooold. I bet the overwhelming majority of NPR followers are inactive accounts by people who signed up somewhere in the '10s and went to the website twice.


Not when all their followers were gained the first week.

Please show me the celebrity/business/politician with even a quarter as many retweets or likes as their follower count.

It doesn't happen. It's an open secret they all buy their followers. They call it 'growth hacking' or 'fake it till you make it'- I call it bullshit.

There are firms that do nothing but increase follower count.

Simply do an internet search for 'where to buy twitter followers'. It's pretty sad its literally that simple.




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