BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: A 3rd party Twitter audit shows a whopping 70.2% of Elon Musk's twitter followers are fake.
Is Elon using bots to manipulate Twitter? 🤔
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We performed an audit using a tool created by the Washington state based software company SparkToro, which analyzes Twitter followers of any account, and examines 25+ factors to identify the percentage of "bots" and other "fake" followers that follow the account.
The audit revealed that Elon Musk's twitter account not only had more fake followers than most, but revealed details about a number of his 93,790,063 followers.
41% of Elon Musk's sampled twitter followers had display names that matched spam-correlated signals.
83% of Elon Musk's sampled followers have a suspiciously small number of followers.
78% of Elon Musk's sampled followers follow an unusually small number of accounts.
71% of Elon Musk's sampled followers used a location that does not match any known place name.
69% of Elon Musk's sampled followers have not tweeted in over 120 days.
For someone who says the purchase of Twitter hinges on the number of bots on the platform, Elon Musk’s unusually high number of fake followers should be of significant interest to the public./