Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts
mashable.com
mashable.com
What conclusions can we even draw from this? I have a Twitter account with zero followers.
The article is trying hard to create a news where there is none as I guess majority of people are like this and only use it to read and follow intresting people.
What seems far more likely is that these accounts are being created en masse to participate in paid follower campaigns, and that following Musk is part of the onboarding process for the accounts. We saw the same thing happening with Trump a few years ago, for example.