70% Of Obama's Followers On Twitter Are Fakes

[mudwhistle]

Obama has over 18 million followers on his twitter account. Using a web tool the New York Times discovered nearly 3/4 of them are fakes.

Is there anything real about this guy?



Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers

 

[CrusaderFrank]

They all voted for him too

 

[theHawk]

What a coincidence, 70% of everything that comes out of his mouth is a false.

 

[copsnrobbers]

I never liked Snakes or Bull Shit.

 

[KissMy]

What a coincidence, 70% of everything that comes out of his mouth is a false.

Just like Obama's lie in his signing statement on the NDAA law. Now that the court struck dowm that part of the law that Obama promised he did not want & was forced to include. Now Obama is appealing the courts decision. Obama is such a lying fraud!

 

[OODA_Loop]

Yes but he microbrews.

 

[California Girl]

They aren't 'fake', they are dead people. Why does Muddie hate dead Americans?

 

[Stephanie]

Everything about Obama is deceiving people

how sad is that and people fall for it

 

[CrusaderFrank]

But we don't need voter ID laws, no way. Democrats would never, ever try to create fake people to vote. No way

 

[Katzndogz]

Is any part of this creature's presidebtcy real? The whole thing is a fake.

 

[Skull Pilot]

They aren't 'fake', they are dead people. Why does Muddie hate dead Americans?

Hmm Were they dead before or after they followed Bam Bam on twitter?

 

[blastoff]

They're not fakes. They just haven't been made Czars of anything yet.

 

[Moonglow]

I belive that 70% of all twitters user are fake as well, along with personas put out by individuals.

 

[paperview]

Spam.

 

[paperview]

But we don't need voter ID laws, no way. Democrats would never, ever try to create fake people to vote. No way

Or it's spam.

Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem

along with a inactive users, and an app that needs to tweek the twits.

Update: As Mashable reader Michael Bauser pointed out in the comments below, the tool works by analyzing up to 1,000 random followers, generating occasionally mixed results. When Bauser used the Fake Follower Check, it told him 31% — or just under 6 million — of Obama’s followers are fake.


“Obviously our scores are more accurate for those with smaller follower bases simply because it would be impossible to crunch all the follower data that Obama has in a reasonable manner via the Twitter API,” wrote StatusPeople’s Rob Waller in an e-mail to Mashable. “We released an update to our tool on Wednesday to make our App more accurate for those with larger follower bases.”


Mashable has also changed the above post to reflect that 70% of Obama’s followers were found to be fake or “inactive,” accounts that are no longer in use. We regret the error.

Obama Has Millions of Fake Twitter Followers [UPDATED]

 

[paperview]

Poor Romney.

Looks even worse for him.

Presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have both been accused of trying to appear more tech-savvy by buying their way to fame. It’s unclear whether Romney or someone else paid for his followers, but a massive spike in his social media popularity earlier this Summer was definitely at odds with his stagnant poll numbers.

Not all celebrity accounts with loads of robotic followers have scrupulously bought their way to fame. In many cases, famous people are a tempting target for spammers hocking their message via @replys, or are simply just popular with the roughly half of Twitter accounts that tried out social networking and never came back (numbers current as of 2011).

StatusPeople, and the headlines it’s generated, may drive more people to alternative metrics of popularity, such as Klout, which quantifies follower engagement in addition to volume. But, such measures are rife with inaccuracies.

Find Out How Many Fake Twitter Followers You Have With StatusPeople | TechCrunch

 

[tjvh]

What a coincidence, 70% of everything that comes out of his mouth is a false.

Aren't you being generous... I was thinking the mid ninety percentile myself.

 

[Stephanie]

What a coincidence, 70% of everything that comes out of his mouth is a false.

Aren't you being generous... I was thinking the mid ninety percentile myself.

I was thinking 100%

 

[Katzndogz]

Is anything about obama real?

Or, is it all like his Greek Columns?