I don't think these numbers are accurate. I don't have 85K followers. I keep an eye on my account as a metric of Nostr growth. I have closer to about 10K followers according to several other sites and it's slowly been trending upwards. I'm wondering where thos discrepancy is coming from. To me, it sounds like spammers.
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wtf that’s a lot.. i would be happy with a handful of followers 😂
I definitely agree that the numbers should be scrutinized. If they are materially affected by bots/spammers, the strange thing is that the relative distribution follows smoothly all the way through to the smaller accounts. That would be a strange thing for spammers to do. They look organic to me, but I am open to other explanations.
#[3] is a smart guy that has some work on follower counts. Maybe he can help figure this out.
I'm not seeing the original post for some reason. What's the noteID of the start of the thread? It could be that whoever's doing the counting is counting duplicates either in the db or from multiple relays.