I have a low following but I try to vet them as best as I can before I follow them back. Also have under 1K tweets but they are mostly my memes.
(In the meme world - that’s pretty good...lol)
I’ve muted a few followers that just slam re-tweets of other accounts that fill up the stream so I miss tweets from other people I’m following. I rather see original tweets than constant streams of retweets...retweeting is fine, I do it a little, but machine-gunning 20 at a time is just too much - they get the ‘mute’
If someone follows me and I see they are chronic re-tweeters only - I don’t follow back.
From time to time I have seen evidence of them messing with my stats. Not sure how it is done but seems like someone just throttles it. I gaining followers and making same number of tweets and getting similar RT’s and my impressions and mentions just die.
I usually run between 150-200,000 impressions a month. I have hit as high as 475,000 in a month. It fluctuates less now than it did a few years ago.