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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1013747" data-attributes="member: 12952">Re: Obamanation here todayFrom The NY Times :[h=2]Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers[/h]A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama&#039;s crowd includes &quot;fake followers,&quot; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/fashion/twitter-followers-for-sale.html?_r=2&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1345810035-hPtdwhoE1D2MaX4UUGwl9g" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased.&quot;The&nbsp; practice has become so widespread that StatusPeople, a social media&nbsp; management company in London, released a Web tool last month called the&nbsp; Fake Follower Check that it says can ascertain how many fake followers&nbsp; you and your friends have,&quot; the Times reports.&quot;Fake&nbsp; accounts tend to follow a lot of people but have few followers,&quot; said&nbsp; Rob Waller, a founder of StatusPeople. &quot;We then combine that with a few&nbsp; other metrics to confirm the account is fake.&quot;Notes the Times:If&nbsp; accurate, the number of fake followers out there is surprising.&nbsp; According to the StatusPeople tool, 71 percent of Lady Gaga&#039;s nearly 29&nbsp; million followers are &quot;fake&quot; or &quot;inactive.&quot; So are 70 percent of&nbsp; President Obama&#039;s nearly 19 million followers.
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[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1013747, member: 12952"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] From The NY Times : [h=2]Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers[/h] A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama's crowd includes "fake followers," [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/fashion/twitter-followers-for-sale.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1345810035-hPtdwhoE1D2MaX4UUGwl9g"][I]The New York Times[/I][/URL] 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 [I]Times[/I] 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 [I]Times[/I]: [INDENT]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. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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