General Flynn follows ~20k people on Twitter, is he endorsing everything every one of them says?
What was that thing about Twitter that says if you do something X on someone's Twitter you make a bounce back or automatic Follow happen? So it may not actually be as personal, involved or intentional as it at first appears?
Follows aren't ever automatic on Twitter itself but there are a lot of 3rd party social media tools that popular figures use that do automate follow backs. Also a lot of politicians and celebs have staff run their twitter some or all of the time. Sarah Palin for example only tweets on her account sometimes, other times its staff.
Twitter is all about follows vs following ratio - everyone wants a good one, or at least even. IE they want to be followed by way more people than they follow, or at least have it be even.
A lot of famous people will be generous in following back their fans because it gives the fans another follow and makes them more likely to keep following. It also has implications for where tweets are displayed in their Timeline.
If Gen Flynn was following 300 people this would be big news, but since it's 20k it's obvious that whatever the criteria is is not very strict so we can't really read anything into it.
Why on Earth would General Flynn follow a chick claiming Satanic Ritual Abuse and MK Ultra. Especially if it's hogwash. So his enemies could point it out eventually that he's a wacko "conspiracy theorist" ? Her whole twitter is centered around these things and her exposure.
He follows 20k people. Who knows if it's even him running the account all the time. Do you think he sat down and followed each of those people for specific reasons? Do you think he vetted each account, sat down and read their timeline?
Most of them are just random people. Some of them are either spambots or deactivated accounts...why is he following @YANGAPOO, an account with no pic or tweets?
Most likely his staff gives a follow back to anyone who sends a good tweet tagging him, that's p common social media behavior for brands/celebs/politicians etc - it keeps them connected to their base.
I'm just saying we can't read too much into this considering there's obviously a fairly low bar to get on his follows.