Martin Koss – thinking out loud…

It never fails to amaze me how so many people using all these automated twitter apps to find and follow just about anyone, will, in fact, follow just about anything.

As a bit of an experiment following a discussion about ‘how easy it is to get followers “WITHOUT” using anything automated’ I set-up a Twitter username with no picture, no bio, no weblink, nothing. Oh, and no tweets. I had one ‘regional’ keyword in the username, that’s it.

I was one of the ‘unknown’ twitter users:

But sure enough, within a few days I had followers.

What on earth were/are they following? Do I smell?

So to all you folks who think you’re popular because you have thousands of unknown followers: Guess what. There’s a lot of Twitter users who would follow a bad smell – as long as it had a Twitter account – of course.

Things that make a ya go hmmmm!

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