I'm not a huge twitter user at this point, less than 50 tweets in over a year. But I read over there a lot.

This confuses me, it's spam I guess, but why like this?

I'll see a tweet for (sometopic) and then a long string of identical tweets from a long list of other user id's.

That number can range from 10 or so to 50 or more.

Why? Can that actually work?

It's annoying, but I just scroll past them, but I just don't understand why spammers do this.

In a few cases I've seen I can see that the individual user id's all might have their own followers that will see the tweet, but most often the list of id's doesn't seem to include user id's that would actually have many, if any followers of their own.

I just don't get it.

And they aren't spread over time, they are time stamped one right after the other, maybe an automated tweeting system of some sort?

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