More than half of Elon Musk, Narendra Modis Twitter followers fake: Online tool

In a stunning revelation, an online tool
claimed that Elon Musk’s more than half of the followers on Twitter are fake
while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has 58.7 % fake followers on the
microblogging site. The fact has come into the limelight just days after Musk won a deal to buy the micro-blogging website for $44 billion.

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The audit conducted by SparkToro
revealed that Musk and Modi’s more than half of the followers are fake, which means they are either
spam accounts, bots or no longer active on Twitter.

The tool can be accessed by any Twitter
user to check how many of their followers are fake. Opoyi, however, can’t find
out how authentic is the results shown by SparkToro.

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While Elon Musk has 90 million
followers, Modi has 78.4 million followers on Twitter.

“This audit analyses a sample of 2,000
random accounts from the most recent 100,000 accounts that follow elonmusk,
then looks at 25+ factors correlated with spam/ bot/ low quality accounts,”
SparkToro told The Independent about its methodology.

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On the result page of its audit,
SparkToro said, “Accounts with a similar sized following to @elonmusk have a
median of 41% fake followers. This account has more fake followers than most.”

Modi, who is now the world’s
most-followed global leader, has 46,054,780 fake followers according to the
website.

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The Indian Prime Minister is currently
in Europe on a three-day tour. PM Modi will visit Germany, France and Denmark.
He will meet 8 world leaders in 25 meetings in 65 hours.

Musk is currently in the process of
completing his takeover of Twitter. He had promised to make it free of bots and
spam accounts.

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“If our Twitter bid succeeds, we will
defeat the spam bots or die trying,” the Tesla chief tweeted on April 21.