The author's twitter account only has 160 some tweets but more than 19000 followers, a lot of which look like fake accounts...building the rails app is a good u

The author's twitter account only has 160 some tweets but more than 19000 followers, a lot of which look like fake accounts...building the rails app is a good use of time but it seems it wasn't actually used (who would need to automates 100 tweets)?