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follower fishing 

When someone is looking to gain followers on twitter so they follow a large number of people hoping to gain a couple and a few days later unfollow all of them, but still keep the followers they gained.
Person 1: im gonna get 200 followers tonight!!
Person 2: How do you plan on doing that?
Person 1: I'm goin fishin! ... Follower Fishing!!!!
follower fishing by @KPH1LL1P August 3, 2012
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follower bias 

When someone thinks a tweet/instagram post/etc is better than it really is simply because the poster has +10x more followers than they do.
That Rob Delaney tweet wasn't even funny, but he still got 2000 RTs. Total follower bias.

follower bump

when u have an significant increase in followers on twitter in a short amount of time
Person 1: Hey man, just got 28 followers on twitter in the last hour

Person 2: ah dude, thats a sweet follower bump

Person 3: i got 3 new followers in the last day on twitter

Person 1: pahahahaha

Person 2: yo, still a follower bump cos he hardly have any followers in the first place

follower farm 

A commercial operation that creates fake followers for social media. Usually in Indian subcontinent.
All your twitter followers were grown in a follower farm by keyboard wallahs
follower farm by the real juju July 30, 2017

Follower Whore 

A person who follows millions of random people to gain followers.
Who is this random person following me? I don't even post anything. Probably a follower whore...

Follower Whore: FOLLOW. FOLLOW. FOLLOW. FOLLOW!!! FOLLOW ME BAAAAAACK!!~

Follower Envy 

Envy caused by the large number of followers one has on Twitter.
After seeing that my buddy has almost 21,000 people following him on Twitter, I will be the first to admit that I have a serious case of follower envy.
Follower Envy by TheMaxDaddy March 9, 2009

Follower Deficit 

An occurrence in social media where the amount of followers someone has is less than the amount of people they are following.
Did you hear? That awkward kid in our class follows like 500 people, but he only has 30 followers. Dude's got a depressing follower deficit.
Follower Deficit by melodramatic boy November 20, 2015