Fake Follower Checker: Obama has 1 million fake Twitter followers,Romney has ...: A new Web tool has determined... http://bit.ly/QeAbcr
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Fake Follower Checker: Obama has 1 million
fake Twitter followers, Romney has many too
Fake Follower Checker has apparently revealed that Barack Obama has one million fake followers, and that Mitt Romney has many, too. / AP Photo
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President Obama's Twitter account has 18.8 million followers -- but more than half of them really don't exist, according to reports.
A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama's crowd includes "fake followers," The New York Times reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased.
"The practice has become so widespread that StatusPeople, a social media management company in London, released a Web tool last month called the Fake Follower Check that it says can ascertain how many fake followers you and your friends have," the Times reports.
"Fake accounts tend to follow a lot of people but have few followers," said Rob Waller, a founder of StatusPeople. "We then combine that with a few other metrics to confirm the account is fake."
Notes the Times:
If accurate, the number of fake followers out there is surprising. According to the StatusPeople tool, 71% of Lady Gaga's nearly 29 million followers are "fake" or "inactive." So are 70% of President Obama's nearly 19 million followers.
Republican opponent Mitt Romney has far fewer Twitter followers -- not quite 900,000 -- but it's a good bet that some of them are fake as well.
