If he was following a few hundred or even a few thousand profiles, maybe it would be interesting to dive deeper into them and see who they are. But he's following 600,000.

Even if he has a large team managing his social media account on a daily basis, they're not going to sit there and physically follow that many people even over the course of a decade.

Odds are his social media agency or PR firm experimented with some kind of mass following software....maybe following accounts that previously tweeted him or a special hashtag or something to that effect. At that level, people pay consultants a big amount of money to try out all kinds of tools and techniques to manage public perception.

Pedo defenders. One of them was harassing @becki_p20

Strange, One of the pics happened to be my country's symbol except its a black sun and stars.

there's tons of them

if you look through his following list there's tons of these eggs with protected tweets https://twitter.com/BarackObama/following what and who are they