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.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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It's meant to be a full mirror/clone of the Twitter account so it displays how many followers it has on Twitter.