That might have fed to their content algorithm and used as an input to show us a more relevant feed (eg show less people talking about diet and politics). I thought this would be more of an indication for users to quickly view whether this person is a bot or untrustworthy scammer.

Have you heard of hive.one back when it was up and running? It was ranking twitter profiles within a group/community we belonged to based on common relationships. Might be interesting to see which data points they were pulling.