Im thinking about buying Twitter followers, should I do that?

Hi everyone, Ive been working on a Twitter account for a few months, and the results so far have been very disappointing, I have done most of the things that social media experts recommend for Twitter, Ive really been putting a lot of effort on it, and so far the account has only get a little less than 200 followers.

I really need to start showing some results there, so I feel like im running out of options, the things that I have tried include:

Making a lot of engagement with my targeted audience, that engagement has included favs, RTs and direct discussions.
Using popular HTs for trying to get new followers through them.
Keeping an active account, tweeting no less than 15 times per day.
I use a wide varieaty of content, including gifs and photos.
I try to post valuable content.

I have done all of those things and as I said the results are quite small so far, I know most of the experts say that buying followers is a bad idea, but I really feel like I have no other choice, my main concern right now is that I will not get more followers until I have a big following, I think that people wont follow me until they see I have a lot of followers.

What would your advice be? Should I do this? Or is it really a bad idea?

I will appreciate every comment, im quite desperate with this situation.