[egypturnash]

I believe the utility of 10k robot followers in Twitter is that it fools Twitter into thinking you and your tweets are interesting things that should be shown to more people, and thus starts to get you human followers. Unless Twitter figures out you've been buying followers and bans you and/or the robot followers before you get to the point where you've got multiple tens of thousands of human followers.

[ansible]

I meant more that every single user of Twitter now gets 10K robot followers. Then we're back to square one (or worse) and it is hard to stand out again. The platform would likely collapse at that point.

[egypturnash]

Oh yeah, that sounds pretty unstable. :)