90% of his new followers are all brand new accounts that have no followers, no profile pic, etc.<p>Yet Twitter is completely OK with this it seems.<p>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/followers
Twitter is filled with bots in general, and they often follow popular accounts. I wouldn't necessarily conclude that this is Trump-specific, although that's also possible.<p>The general conclusion, since Twitter itself won't explain, is that they don't want to tank user numbers, which would weigh down their stock even further.