This has become obvious to me after getting a few blog posts at the top of HN. I just search for my domain on Twitter, and there are dozens of "people" who do

This has become obvious to me after getting a few blog posts at the top of HN. I just search for my domain on Twitter, and there are dozens of "people" who do nothing but retweet hacker news articles. They are presumably doing this for some kind of "reverse" reputation. I'm interested if anyone has any more insight on this phenomenon. Maybe it's as simple as convincing some naive users to follow them with links vetted as high quality. Examples: https://twitter.com/bartezzini https://twitter.com/bartezzini (123K tweets, nothing but HN-type links and comments) https://twitter.com/EggmanOrWalrus https://twitter.com/EggmanOrWalrus (15.7k tweets, ditto) https://twitter.com/MarkBeacham https://twitter.com/MarkBeacham