Presidential Candidates With the MOST FAKE Twitter Followers

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While it is true that Twitter accounts can accumulate fake followers without realizing it, it is also true that you can purchase fake Twitter followers. With some presidential candidates showing a high number of fake followers, one has to question how many of those were accidental and how many were paid for.

- We used a service called TwitterAudit, like the Examiner did, which looks at the tweeting tendencies and verifies followers of Twitter accounts to decide if they're real.



Here they are, from most fakes to least, within each party.

HILLARY CLINTON

Hillary Clinton has the most fake followers among Democratic presidential candidates. We found that 59 percent of Clinton's Twitter followers are real. Therefore, her social media following is only a little more than half as popular as it appears. Clinton has 4.65 million followers at this time, so it would appear she has [bmillions of fake and real followers.]

BERNIE SANDERS

It appears most of Bernie Sanders' followers are real human beings. The New York Times has referred to him as the "king of social media," so this is no surprise. Of his followers, 89 percent are real. Sanders has more than 820,000 followers for his presidential candidate account. (His Senator account has almost one million, and 90 percent are real.)

MARTIN O'MALLEY

Martin O'Malley, though only getting about 2 percent in the polls, has mostly real followers—just over 100,000. Like Sanders, 89 percent of O'Malley's followers are real.

CHRIS CHRISTIE

Chris Christie isn't even on the main debate stage anymore, but we had to honor him with the label of "most fake Twitter followers." We found Christie has even more fake followers, by percentage, than Hillary Clinton has. Only 43 percent of the accounts that follow his presidential Twitter account are real people. That means more than half of his 63,700 followers are fake. He has an account for his governor position with over 500,000 followers, and 64 percent of the accounts that follow that are real.

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http://www.attn.com/stories/4093/presidential-candidates-fake-social-media

[Buzz Clik]

1. Holy crap! Who has the time (or the need!) to invent 1.9 million followers?

Is 2.74 million not enough?

And who the hell checks this stuff?

Lots of questions about a ridiculous subject.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Based on my 'tweeting tendencies',

I'm probably one of Bernie's 'fake followers'. I just don't tweet a lot, mostly just to occasionally retweet something from some of the organizations I'm following.

[JI7]

3. what are tweeting tendencies ?

I'm not sure what you mean by fake. Would it include people who follow someone even though they don't actually support them for the office they are running for ?

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4. "...TwitterAudit allows visitors..

"... to enter any Twitter handle, and audit its percentage of real versus fake followers.
Fake followers are determined by the frequency of their own tweets - 'number of tweets, date of the last tweet, and ratio of followers to friends,' according to the site.

The site says it is not affiliated with Twitter and acknowledges 'this scoring method is not perfect.'
Among the 15 Republicans running for president, TwitterAudit gives the award for most fake followers to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 36 percent of whose followers are not real.."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3311098/Hillary-s-Twitter-page-unusually-high-number-fake-followers.html

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5. If I am following Hillary

and I may well be I can't recall if I did or didn't, then I am definitely listed as fake by the standard in your link.