I have seen some crazy things on twitter regarding amount of followers. There are a bunch of new accounts made by the same person (I'm sure of this because to advertise his new accounts, he sneakily retweets the tweets of his alternate accounts ) . Anyways, these new accounts that are literally created a few minutes ago all of a sudden have 70k followers, in just a few minutes and just 3 tweets posted. Are most of the followers bots or something? Oh, and why is it that some twitter accounts, usually the ones with a lot of followers, post pic.twitter links, except its not pic.twitter, its usually pictwitter.com or pictwitter.nu or some weird links like that. They just want you to click on those links so they get money from the ads you will view on that page, correct? Sorry for the weird thread, these things have been bothering me for a while.
According to some, for the really popular celebrity accounts, about half of their followers are fake.
^ Actually wait, i wasn't talking about celebrity twitter accounts although that is a crazy statistic, i'm talking about accounts like uberfacts whattheffacts etc
I'm not surprised, it's the same with Facebook. People make pages, post stupid **** that stupid people would like and then sell off their page for advertisements.
because it's good for their business to have an impression that a lot more people use it than reality.
Well yes, but my original question pertains to how some newly made accounts (i'm talking just a few minutes) can get so many followers (70k, ive seen it today)
Bots created solely to follow twitter pages. Usually a paid service. Or a network of mutual follows (follow for follow).
You can pay to get them. Example. It's for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes to get your twitter account to the top of Google.
