[nemothekid]

Eli Lilly's official twitter handle was @LillyPad. The fake was @EliLillyandCo.

The part about followers doesn't matter because the number of followers someone has doesn't show up in the feed, nor is it emphasized that boldly. Someone can just make a fake account, write a fake tweet, and the retweet that tweet onto their actual account.

[iudqnolq]

It's also completely plausible for a real, situationally important authority to have very few followers.