Obama's phantom presence
Exclusive: Andrea Shea King discovers president's 'followers' are fake
How do we know that? By using an app developed by Status People. It’s called “Fakers App,” and more than 150,000 people have already used it to find out what their follower quality is.
Status People also have developed a Fakers Dashboard you can use – for a nominal fee – that tells you how many of your Twitter followers and those of five other Twitter account holders are fake, inactive or good. For example, my Twitter account @RadioPatriot shows that 2 percent of my followers are fake, 12 percent are inactive, and 86 percent are good.
So I ran a test on Obama’s Twitter handle, @BarackObama. The result? Of his 20,014,187 followers, 32 percent are fake, 40 percent are inactive and only 28 percent are good.
So who’s really reading Obama’s tweets? His base? His campaign war room worker bees?
Go ahead and plug your Twitter handle into this handy app. Once you do, it’ll automatically save your details and update your account.