On twitter one could trace the retweets and followers-of-followers and feel the connections rippling, here it's just people Ive never seen before and will never see again

Absolutely this. If it's on a quoted post that's one thing, because then you can assume someone was poking through the quotes and likely follows the OP A random post though? And not mentioning any terms a reasonable person might search for, like a game or something? HOW DID YOU FIND ME, WTF?

So much this!