Why the fake followers i don't understand.
We've been actively deleting fake followers and have been trying to figure out where they are all coming from. We've deleted hundreds/thousands of followers a couple of times and they keep coming back. Not sure who's adding them, but it's not us. We have not pursued any type of advertising on Twitter because Twitter is basically a conversation tool and there is no advantage to having "fake" followers. Our hunch is that someone is screwing with us, but there's no way to tell. It looks like it's happened a few separate times. Our Twitter follower numbers go up or down by the thousands some days. We'll continue to delete fake addresses and monitor to make sure it doesn't happen again.
We are aware that there are a lot of 'fake follows' and that we are actively removing them but it's taking some time. We have also reported it to Twitter.
Ok that makes sense.