Meet @cielahbro, an account with 243K followers that is apparently for sale. Is it actually worth buying? #WednesdayWisdom

cc: @ZellaQuixote

We're quite frankly unconvinced that more than a tiny amount of @cielahbro's followers are authentic. We'll take a look at four particularly anomalous groups of accounts.

The first group of dodgy @cielahbro followers consists of 11249 accounts created in batches of accounts with names in a variety of languages (or at least alphabets) between October 15th and October 18th, 2014. Almost all have zero tweets and zero likes.

The first group of dodgy @cielahbro followers consists of 11249 accounts created in batches of accounts with names in a variety of languages (or at least alphabets) between October 15th and October 18th, 2014. Almost all have zero tweets and zero likes.

The third group of suspicious accounts (~37200 total) following @cielahbro consists of blocks of accounts created 2009-2014 where the names abrubtly shift from Latin to Cyrillic in early 2011. These accounts follow many accounts but have almost no followers of their own.

The fourth and final (in this thread, anyway) group of likely inauthentic @cielahbro followers consists of ~44300 accounts that followed @cielahbro during two time periods where @cielahbro was followed by NO new accounts. Those that have tweets look spammy.