It’s unbelievable, but nearly 50% of the accounts that follow CNN’s Twitter account are, much like their news, completely fake accounts.
The data comes from TwitterAudit, a site that monitors the quality and score of real and fake followers by taking “a sample of up to 5000 Twitter followers for a user and calculates a score for each follower. This score is based on number of tweets, date of the last tweet, and ratio of followers to friends.”
From Breitbart:
TwitterAudit states that these results are not definitive but do provide insight into whether or not a Twitter account gained followers through illegitimate means: “We use these scores to determine whether any given user is real or fake. Of course, this scoring method is not perfect but it is a good way to tell if someone with lots of followers is likely to have increased their follower count by inorganic, fraudulent, or dishonest means.”
