Bob Hobden wrote:
Had the same when I joined Twitter, some followed me at the beginning that
looked, from their profile picture, like they may be "ladies of the night",
or for older London folk "2 to 4s". Why such would want to "follow" me going
on about plants goodness knows.


I have an twitter soley for the purpose of public ising www.geograph.org.uk
..

It is regularly 'followed' by commercial operations like betwire or double
glazing companies who exhibit jo interest in geography whatever. I think
they are hoping for an automatic follow back, because number of followers
is the commercial social media version of testosterone. It may also be
passive advertising.

More worrying is the number of people masquerading as dead Jamaican
musicians. There are now 13 instances of Bob Marley in my list.

My most useful Twitter account is one I never post to at all. It merely
follows the highways agency, the met office, and a small handful of very
specialist road&weather condition retweeters. It is very handy for winter
driving.