candycorn
Diamond Member
From the OP article
The difference between fake followers and 'real' ones is comprised of 'inactive' accounts, which may relate to real people but no longer send tweets with any regularity.
There are several reasons why so many followers of a given Twitter account might be considered 'fake.' In some cases, direct marketers and other spammers follow influential accounts en masse, hoping to be followed in return.
Twitter's own CEO, Dick Costolo, has a personal feed followed by 1.1 million people, but 31 per cent of them are fake.
Read more: Barack Obama has 19.5m fake Twitter followers | Mail Online
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Nothing to see here folks.
The notion that fake twitter accounts is something new is just another conservative ruse. The reason people create the bots is because they know a person has a lot of real life followers so their spam is added to the twitter stream so it gets eyes on it if nothing else.
If anything, people (including our President) who have fake followers are more impressive because whoever makes these bots figures they are popular enough to follow.