How Many of Your Twitter Followers Are Fake? (redux)

(Warning: Fun blog post coming.)

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON'S TWITTER FOLLOWERS BOGUS?

It was recently discovered that more than 2 million of Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's Twitter followers are fake or never tweet. So, of the 3.3 million Twitter followers of the Democrat Presidential candidate for 2016, well over half of them are bogus.

Now I wanted to see this for myself. So I went to the Status People website which measures fake followers. Actually, it will give a breakdown of Twitter followers on any Twitter account in three categories: "Fake," "Inactive" and "Good." Just type in the Twitter name (HillaryClinton) and voila.

Here's what I found on the Democrat Presidential candidate: 13% Fake; 40% Inactive; 47% Good. (see clickable thumbnail above)

And so it was true that Hillary Clinton only has less than half genuine Twitter followers. And it seems that the other close to 53% (at least at the time that I searched the data) were a combination of Fake and Inactive followers.

HOW MANY OF MY TWITTER FOLLOWERS ARE FAKE? 

The question in my mind ultimately was: "What about me? How many of my 197,500+ (at the time of this writing) Twitter followers are fake?"

And I must tell you, I was a little bit nervous to find out. The case has been made that the reason why someone might have a lot of fake followers is because they paid money for them.

But I hadn't bought any Twitter followers. So would the data indicate that or not?

Well, I was pleasantly surprised. It did! I have only 2% fake followers. And you can click on the thumbnail at the right (above) to see for yourself.

LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE AND THEIR FAKE TWITTER FOLLOWERS

And just for fun, here's a short list of other famous people with the number of fake Twitter followers following them (don't forget to go check out your own breakdown):

1. Justin Bieber (62.7 million+ followers):  3% Fake; 68% Inactive; 29% Good.
2. Barack Obama (58 million+ followers):  6% Fake; 79% Inactive; 15% Good.
3. Britney Spears (41.5+ million followers):  8% Fake; 51% Inactive; 41% Good.
4. Bill Gates (21.3+ million followers):  9% Fake; 63% Inactive; 28% Good.

You might also be interested in: 13 Reasons Why People Aren't Following You on Twitter 7 Ways to Get People to Follow You on Twitter (simple version)

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