How Many of Your Twitter Followers Are Fake?

(Warning: Fun blog post coming.)

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S TWITTER FOLLOWERS BOGUS?

It was recently discovered that close to 70% of Barack Obama's Twitter followers are fake. So, of the 19 million Twitter followers of the President, 13 million plus are bogus.

Now I wanted to see this for myself. So I went to the Status People website which measures fake followers. Actually, it will give a breakdown of Twitter followers on any Twitter account in three categories: "Fake," "Inactive" and "Good." Just type in the Twitter name (BarackObama) and voila.

Here's what I found on the President: 35% Fake; 36% Inactive; 29% Good. (see clickable thumbnail above)

And so it was true that Barack Obama only has approximately 30% genuine Twitter followers. And it seems that the close to 70% (at least at the time that I searched the data) were a combination of Fake and Inactive followers.

HOW MANY OF MY TWITTER FOLLOWERS ARE FAKE? 

The question in my mind ultimately was: "What about me? How many of my 88,000+ (at the time of this writing) Twitter followers are fake?"

And I must tell you, I was a little bit nervous to find out. The case has been made that the reason why someone might have a lot of fake followers is because they paid money for them.

But I hadn't bought any Twitter followers. So would the data indicate that or not?

Well, I was pleasantly surprised. It did! I have ZERO fake followers. And you can click on the thumbnail at the right (above) to see for yourself.

LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE AND THEIR FAKE TWITTER FOLLOWERS

And just for fun, here's a short list of other famous people with the number of fake Twitter followers following them (don't forget to go check out your own breakdown):

1. Justin Bieber (27.2 million+ followers):  27% Fake.
2. Britney Spears (19.8+ million followers):  33% Fake.
3. Oprah Winfrey (13.5 million+ followers):  29% Fake.
4. Mitt Romney (950k+ followers):  17% Fake.

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