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Why some Mastodon accounts 'have' the same number of followers from Twitter? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is one from many examples.

I understand that this bot account mirrors the tweets into Mastodon, but how is it normal that it also mirrors the number of followers? Is it a bug?

If you check their followers list, they have a few hundreds at most.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's meant to be a full mirror/clone of the Twitter account so it displays how many followers it has on Twitter.