Wow, talk about a psychological blind spot...the entire time, from reading the submitted title to the article itself, I had read "Twitch" as "Twitter" (while half-wondering, "why are they going after news broadcasters?"). Inflated follower counts are a problem on Twitter, especially when lending credibility to an account, but I don't think Twitter will really go out of its way to fight them. Users like having that followers number be high, no matter the lack of substance, as evidence at how pissed everyone was when Instagram cleaned house...some users even felt they "earned" those spam follows:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chaos-ensues-as-instagram-del...