I find sometimes there no correlation between the number of followers listed and the actual number of followers. Or, I’ve watched in real time as the number flips back and forth -adding two, dropping two, adding two, dropping two, but the actual profiles listed remain exactly the same. The bot thing, according to various cyber security reports, increased after the invasion of Ukraine. The previous spike was 2016.
I still say it’s a weird algorithm that has inconsistent results. We’ll see what happens after the new CEO has been there awhile.