most of them came from a totally different movie website i ran for a couple of years but was getting copyright problems with non stop.
 
since i started the begging thing its gone up by a good few hundred, its just one of these things on twitter where followers attract followers.  the retweets help, i nevef post anything on there myaelf and im getting a few dozen notifications of retweet/favs a week, all the spammy news articles are posted automatically.