Does Julia Gillard buy Twitter followers?

An investigation by the Young Conservative has found Julia Gillard has an incredible number of inactive Twitter followers, who have never tweeted, who are often not followed by many people (if any) and who generally follow few people.

These inactive profiles follow celebraties from Katy Perry to John Cleese to British Boyband One Direction members, foreign news services, and Julia Gillard. None of them follow individuals or friends.
https://twitter.com/#!/lynettefrancis5
https://twitter.com/#!/DJ_Nightrider
https://twitter.com/#!/ElizabethDThoma
https://twitter.com/#!/bec78_78
https://twitter.com/#!/KaylaMendola
https://twitter.com/#!/coenhill1
https://twitter.com/#!/rahuldag
https://twitter.com/#!/annepayton
https://twitter.com/#!/ClaireB19890871
https://twitter.com/#!/MIZZ1234
https://twitter.com/#!/JustChenny

All of them lack a profile picture, and all of them have never tweeted. Many of them have been on Twitter for months.

There are many online services where you can buy Twitter followers.
It seems possible Gillard is trying to buy popularity.