I don't see any followers on your Twitter account that match this pattern. I have a small number of followers (about 1,100) and I've never had an account like t

I don't see any followers on your Twitter account that match this pattern. I have a small number of followers (about 1,100) and I've never had an account like the type I listed (avatar, bio, ~3 followers, ~2000 following) follow me. The Twitter account I use for the website I work for which has 10,000 followers that are follows mainly through our website (we have the "follow us" button on a high trafficed page) are mainly from Twitter "lurkers" and I can't find a single one that matches the purchased followers pattern I mentioned, you're welcome to check yourself: http://twitter.com/i/#!/redstonewire/followers http://twitter.com/i/#!/redstonewire/followers On top of that I've checked with all the accounts I suspect of purchasing followers when they gained their followers: it's always within a few seconds that they've done from ~1,000 to 5,000, or 1,000 to 60,000. Here's an example of one account I was monitoring, you can see the jump from 2,000 to 4,000 took place at the same time: http://i.imgur.com/jUMNj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/jUMNj.jpg and here's another that went from 0 to 60k: http://i.imgur.com/KwJZj.png http://i.imgur.com/KwJZj.png I don't mean these sort of accounts in isolation: 1 follower matching the pattern out of 100 is fine, but when a user has 10,000 followers and 9,900 match that pattern don't you think that's an indication of follower purchases? Another type I didn't mention are the type that are legitimate active users that have authorised applications that are using this auth to generate follows on demand. These are interesting but not relevant because they're not created accounts just for followers, but legit accounts being used.