Yup you just had to shout "party. free beer" and it would occur naturally.

That sadly is nothing compared to the on-line equivalent that can be bought.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweets-twitter-bots-analysis

Guides and companies to make it happen
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2013/05/16/buying-twitter-followers-cheap-price-friendship

For those of you outside the e-bubble godaddy are one of the big names in registering domain names and other services.
GoDaddy now have a subsidiary called mad mini which runs a web site called fanmenow.com which will get you 15,000 followers for $15.
So this is one of the biggest Interweb companies gaming your reality.
Your rating (follower count) and a tweet will show up in the various search algorithms to provide a weighting on the information to other tools.

Rent a virtual crowd is cheap.

Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.