> Half of those subs will be bots and another 25% will have forgot they even subbed to that person. Very different from paying real money every month. Also you

> Half of those subs will be bots and another 25% will have forgot they even subbed to that person. Very different from paying real money every month. Also you can expect newspaper subscribers are paying a lot of attention to the paper's article, while a follower may be barely paying attention to any account they follow. Additionally, newspaper articles probably drive a lot of tweets in ways that are difficult to measure fully.