Fakers - AllTwitter http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter The Unofficial Twitter Resource Copyright 2013 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:22:20 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 How Easy Is It To Buy Fake Followers On Twitter? [INFOGRAPHIC] If you’re impressed by the tens of thousands of followers that “social media guru” who just followed you has amassed, you might want to consider this: up to 30 percent of her followers could be fake.

The “fake followers” epidemic has been a problem on Twitter for some time, but it’s only in the past few weeks that it’s reached epic proportions.
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]]> Lauren Dugan http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/buying-fake-followers-on-twitter_b27879#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/buying-fake-followers-on-twitter_b27879 http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/?p=27879 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:00:45 +0000 Discover How Many Of Your Followers Are Fake, More Accurately Than Ever There’s been a lot of buzz – almost a roar, really – about the number of fake followers on Twitter lately. And it all started with this little app: Fakers by Social People, which calculates how many followers of any Twitter account are inactive and how many are downright fake.

And now this simple app has been updated to pinpoint your Twitter fakers even more precisely than before.
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]]> Lauren Dugan http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/fakers-updated-account_b27617#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/fakers-updated-account_b27617 http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/?p=27617 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:00:13 +0000 Which Companies Have The Most Fake Followers On Twitter? [STUDY] Last week a little app called Fakers by Status People was launched, allowing anyone to check out how many of their Twitter followers are real and how many are bots, spam or just plain fake.

Business Insider liked the idea of testing for fakers, and took it one step further: they analysed the top companies on Twitter to see which ones were followed by the most fake accounts.

Curious to see which big names in business are all fluff when it comes to Twitter? Read on for the results.
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]]> Lauren Dugan http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/companies-fake-followers-twitter_b27266#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/companies-fake-followers-twitter_b27266 http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/?p=27266 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:00:04 +0000