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This means that of his 22.2 million followers, no less than 11 million are bogus.
The audit, which was performed for Twitter by software firm SparkToro, found that 49.3% of the president’s followers are “fake followers,” according to Newsweek. Ironically, these nonexistent followers have accomplished more by not existing than Joe Biden has by being alive.
SparkToro defined “fake followers” as “accounts that are unreachable and will not see the account’s tweets (either because they’re spam, bots, propaganda, etc. or because they’re no longer active on Twitter).”
Elon Musk, who is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has sent a car into outer space, is attempting to buy Twitter and has allegedly shtupped Amber Heard, has expressed concern over the increasingly high number of fake accounts and has proposed a crackdown on them.
Musk believes a full 20% of all Twitter accounts are fake and he promised not to go through with the pending $44 million purchase until the problem is resolved.
“My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate,” Musk said.
“Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does.”Elon Musk said he believes that 20% of all Twitter accounts are fake and vowed to not go through with his $44M purchase of the social media giant until the issue is resolved.
Current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who is hanging onto his job by a cracked fingernail, fired back at Musk saying that the digital giant suspends over half a million spam accounts every day and locks several millions of accounts they suspect might be spam. But he did not show proof of the fake account percentage.
“Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does.”Elon Musk said he believes that 20% of all Twitter accounts are fake and vowed to not go through with his $44M purchase of the social media giant until the issue is resolved.
Current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who is hanging onto his job by a cracked fingernail, fired back at Musk saying that the digital giant suspends over half a million spam accounts every day and locks several millions of accounts they suspect might be spam. But he did not show proof of the fake account percentage.
Musk fired back at him by asking how sponsors would invest in the company without knowing that fact.
Bah Boom!
SparkToro used the same audit on Musk himself and found that nearly 70.2% of Musk’s 93.3 million Twitter followers were fake.
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SparkToro used the same audit on Musk himself and found that nearly 70.2% of Musk’s 93.3 million Twitter followers were fake.
I doubt that keeps Elon up at night.
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