New data shows that high-profile Twitter users like Musk and President Biden have large numbers of fake followers.
The SparkToro numbers would appear to blow up that assumption that the number is below 5 percent. The findings related to the president’s account, well, you perhaps could explain some of that away due to politics. However, here’s SparkToro’s broader assessment of the Twitter spam problem.
“From May 13-15, 2022, SparkToro and Followerwonk conducted a rigorous, joint analysis of 44,058 public Twitter accounts active in the last 90 days,” SparkToro notes. “These accounts were randomly selected, by machine, from a set of 130+ million public, active profiles. Our analysis found that 19.42%, nearly four times Twitter’s Q4 2021 estimate, fit a conservative definition of fake or spam accounts .
“70.23% of @ElonMusk followers are unlikely to be authentic, active users who see his tweets. This is well above the median for fake followers, but is unsurprising for several reasons:Accounts that receive great deals of press coverage and public interest tend to attract more fake/spam followers than othersElon’s Twitter account
The post goes on to offer some additional context about Musk’s Twitter account, which currently shows 93.8 million followers. If you zero in on only the 26.8 million followers of his Twitter account who’ve tweeted in the last 90 days, though? At that point, you get a much lower estimation of fake followers. Using that model, SparkToro estimates that only 23.4 percent of Musk’s followers represent Twitter spam accounts and the like.
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