Sometimes after I post on twitter, I’ll get 3-4 new followers who seemingly have:

• zero or only 1 tweet
• TONS of “following” and very few “followers”
• Generic profile info, or a picture of a hot girl

I’m not a stranger to spam, scams, or shams, but this is either the dumbest idea spammers have ever had, or the smartest.
On one hand, it could be that spammers are not really grasping the concept of twitter. Spammers can follow me all they want; doesn’t mean I’m going to read their posts or follow them. You have to follow someone to get their “advertised tweets;” their followers-to-following ratio is far too low to impact anyone.

On the other hand, it could be onto some marketing genius. Maybe they’re spambots who aggregate the content of all the tweets they follow, profiling not only spam content for what are hot keywords, but also trolling for useful user data that someone may inadvertently post. It’s hard to tell if that’s happening; and even if it is, it’s nothing that couldn’t be done through brute force and data mining, but it’s enough to make me block the spammers when they add me.

Anyone know anything about these bot twitter users?