There's certainly a system behind the scenes on twitter accounting for links-- I have many times your followers (80k)since I have abused the system (mostly thou

There's certainly a system behind the scenes on twitter accounting for links-- I have many times your followers (80k)since I have abused the system (mostly though giveaways from my sponsor) my links often get many times fewer than hundreds of likes and tens of retweets. You can experiment with the no link vs link thing for yourself by putting the link it a followup reply like some news accounts do btw.