npub145umrlfuf9cppkgkzf08438peevqs8lqrswsu27w3txkeh4n2yysathq7w (npub145u…hq7w) The last step is a hangover from the Twitter algorithms, which - thanks to a litany of stupid small decisions originally designed to help all real users - gave an advantage to those who had far more followers than those they followed.
A high ratio was also seen as a status symbol because it resembled that of genuine celebrities.
The algorithmic feeds hid those changes from Toad to Schmoe. You got to see Schmoe's tweets because you were following them, but you thought it was because they were popular.
Yes, there are several marketplaces for such accounts. The more public-facing side is for big ones - 25k followers and up - but there are plenty that are used as sock-puppets for misinformation that have a few thousand followers.
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npub1q5…c9k7d
2023-08-05 16:34:03
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npub1q5s87fegc5z03censcp9urku7z946ke93hs0v7uwgflv3ejj6p4qmc9k7dPublished at
2023-08-05 16:34:03Event JSON
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