Is This How People Get Many Followers On Twitter?

[Taylor]

I use twitter and instagram a whole lot and I have noticed that there are some people with like THOUSANDS of followers. Like there is this one guy who has about 22k followers on twitter and 230k on instagram.. I just can't figure out why though. He's not a celebrity and he doesn't have a Youtube or any of that, so how is he so well known? I don't know if I am right, but I got to thinking, and I think that what these random twitter users do is when starting out on twitter, they buy followers.. For example, someone on twitter who has 143 followers tweet fairly funny and interesting things, but they can't gain followers because people aren't as interested in someone with 143 rather than someone with, for example, 15k. So what they'd do is buy followers and bump theirs up to about 2,000. Well, this time when people go to their accounts they notice that 2,000 other people follow them so they figure "whyy not", and click the follow button. The larger the "followers" number is, the more people are likely to follow. After that, the followers skyrocket. Because that's what people really care about, quantity instead of quality.. Do you think I am right? Because I am thinking about doing this...

By the way, these are random people who have tons of followers:
(I also think all of these people bought followers to start out their twitter..)
https://twitter.com/elenabroooke
https://twitter.com/savannahmay34
https://twitter.com/Peterrrr_

Here's me lol
https://twitter.com/taylrbrwr\