6 years ago
More than 60% of Donald Trump’s Twitter followers look suspiciously fake
Donald Trump has 55 million followers on Twitter. But his tweets reach less than half of that, according to an analysis by SparkToro. More than 60% of the US president’s Twitter following, or about 33 million accounts, have been deemed fake by the marketing software firm. It ran all of Trump’s followers through a machine-learning based tool that picks up signals that an account might be spam, propaganda, a bot, or inactive. If the account racks up seven to 10 signals or more, it was counted as fake.
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