Twitter Follower Authenticity
The cluster centers on skepticism about the value and genuineness of Twitter follower counts, with discussions questioning bots, spammers, inflated numbers, and follower-to-following ratios as indicators of quality.
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Who knows how much the follower counts are inflated
why wouldn't you follow someone who has more followers than followees? i follow about 20 folks and am followed by 400. those 20 already tweet so much i am not sure i want more traffic than that. what does that say about the quality of my output?
That's an interesting suggestion from someone who's majority of followers are bots.
Having 24k Twitter followers isn't much of an indicator when you're following 19k of them... that's the same strategy spammers use.
Display how many followers your company has on Twitter. Some of those followers are probably spammers - but it doesn't matter short-term.
Can anyone explain what the benefit is of having hundreds of useless followers? Is there some reputation system on Twitter I'm missing?
How many of the twitter followers are live humans?
I just checked them out, they at least have a lot more followers than they follow, so this usually is a good sign. although, unfortunately, they have tweets from about 8k people on their timeline, so it's gonna be tricky to get their attention in all that noise.
I got a weird message about "you are following people too much, only 4000 allowed" . I think I follow like 30 people or so lol. They are definitely looking into limiting people who aren't cash cows. They are overlooking the thing that makes twitter twitter, but keep accelerating that spiral.
Many people on Twitter have fewer followers before they tweet anything.