This is definitely the farthest thing from "rather ingenious". There are countless bots out there already abusing this idea with followers, and pushing it into

This is definitely the farthest thing from "rather ingenious". There are countless bots out there already abusing this idea with followers, and pushing it into favourites isn't making it any better. All it does is add pointless noise to the twitter network and unethically take advantage of the fact that they can't catch all of the spammers at once. Of course you can make money when you violate the rules, but that doesn't mean doing things like that are an ingenious or stable business model.