If an account has 250k followers but gets 10-15k views per tweet, is that a fair signal that they've bot (heh pun) their followers?

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could be a cool experiment (you could make a FC client that does this)

i think those simple metrics help us make our own judgment… having one combo score feels too much like a black box

that said, something like that would be useful to rank the feed for example, and almost certainly is in use today

Would be interesting if followers were removed (publicly) and replaced by an engagement metric. It would be some function of followers, views, likes, comments, ?

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5% views isn’t unusual as accounts following grow.

If you want to identify inorganic follows (bots, giveaways, etc..) look at the growth in followers over time — inorganic generally have a period(s) of unusually high growth preceded and followed by plateaus of little/low growth.

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yea true... to be fair the account i happened upon was a startup account not a person's

until the other day tho, why would one buy views if only the author could see them? was there a benefit?

not necessarily, to be honest — it's the same on telegram, people just stop reading after a time

and to people who think that views can reveal bots

views can also be bought

I think it depends on consistency of the views. If they consistently have low views for a lot of their  then it could be a bot issue unless they are shadow banned