Yes when social media really got going, profile farms made a killing selling follows. I remember at a previous employer being asked to vet a business as a potential partner. I looked at their Twitter profile, 125,000 followers. I browsed the followers and they all looked like a Bitcoiner’s Twitter DM’s of fake looking Asian bots. We passed on the deal. They might have been okay, but I don’t want to do business with anyone who buys followers.