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<blockquote data-quote="Ouachita" data-source="post: 947882" data-attributes="member: 16802"><p>The following news suggest 70% of obama followers are "fake followers". This would imply that 30% are "real followers". What I want to know is; How can you tell the difference :lol2: :lol: Now that's funny right there. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/th.../1#.UDeS1NZlQ19" target="_blank">http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... DeS1NZlQ19</a></p><p></p><p>President Obama's Twitter account has 18.8 million followers -- but more than half of them really don't exist, according to reports.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>"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.</p><p></p><p>"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."</p><p></p><p>Notes the Times:</p><p></p><p>If accurate, the number of fake followers out there is surprising. According to the StatusPeople tool, 71 percent of Lady Gaga's nearly 29 million followers are "fake" or "inactive." So are 70 percent of President Obama's nearly 19 million followers.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Both campaigns have denied buying Twitter followers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ouachita, post: 947882, member: 16802"] The following news suggest 70% of obama followers are "fake followers". This would imply that 30% are "real followers". What I want to know is; How can you tell the difference :lol2: :lol: Now that's funny right there. [url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/th.../1#.UDeS1NZlQ19]http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... DeS1NZlQ19[/url] 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 percent of Lady Gaga's nearly 29 million followers are "fake" or "inactive." So are 70 percent 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. Both campaigns have denied buying Twitter followers. [/QUOTE]
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