Half of Joe Biden's Twitter followers are fake, audit reveals
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Via: vic-eldred • 3 years ago • 86 commentsBy: Jack Hobbs (New York Post)
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At least half of President Biden's 22.2 million Twitter followers are bogus, a new audit revealed.
The audit, which was done for the social media giant by software firm SparkToro, found that 49.3% of the president's followers are "fake followers," according to Newsweek.
SparkToro has 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 or because they're no longer active on Twitter)."
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is currently attempting to buy Twitter, has expressed concern over the growing number of fake accounts and proposed a potential crackdown on the sham accounts.
A new audit claims that nearly half of President Biden's Twitter followers are fake. Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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.
"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."
The audit, which was done for the social media giant by software firm SparkToro, found that 49.3% of the president's followers are "fake followers." 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 fired back at the world's richest man 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.
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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What else has been done for Biden?
meh, most of trump's twitter followers were fake americans...
And the fake followers were found to be right wing false flag activists.
I doubt that Joe Biden cares too much about how many twitter followers he has.
I doubt Joe even knows what Twitter is
Inactive Twitter accounts are not necessarily fake...
Yeah, because they are all "inactive". But then again Biden is inactive.
The unofficial "audit" of Twitter accounts this article is based upon counted suspected bots and "inactive" accounts. It would not surprise me if half of all Twitter accounts are "inactive". Of the membership rolls here probably 95% are inactive. I fail to see anything nefarious about Biden of Musk or anyone having fake and inactive accounts as followers. You can buy fake bot followers. As for inactive ones? Not surprising. Musk ran up Twitter stock, made his nut back and had already sold out. He saw the real numbers.
So now "unofficial" means something?
When it comes to SEC reporting it could mean alot.
And is calling BS on them. Hence the audit.
Lol ... I have a title for Joe’s next book:
Life on the teleprompter
Lets use one of his quotes. How about "I ahidfh; ahdifhohno lkdjafodijfeinoen"
"You know, the thing"
That should work. We need to ensure it has a picture of him shaking hands with his invisible friend on the back cover.
And the teleprompter (his mortal enemy) in front of him.
Kleptocrit ..... Klepperty ....... kleptotiktok .... never mind ....
Yeah, my family doesn’t get it either when I ask for that gizzy over there.
Saved by the Easter Bunny!
That was hilarious
Then Donald Trump should have millions of them.
He did, before he got banned for telling lies...
Lol...He got banned for telling it like it is. Some don't like hearing it like it is.
But as a rotten POS once said "The times, they are a-changin!"
You mean like "the sky is blue"?
I don't know. He wasn't part of the "special group" that whined and complained about the color of air and was banned for hurting the feelings of the left.
That's what happens when you allow people to control speech.
Trump gets banned and Xi, Kim Jong-un, Ruhollah Khomeini, Putin, and Darrell Brooks stay!!!
It's all about the narrative. Want to push division and misinformation you leave Xi, Kim Jong-un, Ruhollah Khomeini, Putin, and Darrell Brooks alone.
What did you think of Biden's new press secretary's first day?
She knows how to give a non answer that's for sure. I guess old Circle Back trained her well.......
Like the administration she speaks for, she's a train wreck.
Psaki is glad to be out of there. Peter Doocy & Jacqui Heinrich drove her nuts. Now she can be with her partisan pals.
Then again, we never promised them a Rose garden.
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I can show you the answer (of which I did) but I can't make you comprehend it.
Liberal logic
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..... 49.3% isn’t half so that’s okay if it’s for Joe.
Can you articulate what you are accusing Joe of?
You are tilting at windmills, there is no accusation against Joe in my comment. Telling, very telling
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President Biden: "We have to not only talk about how we're going to end the hate, but who's responsible for generating it? "Folks on television stations talking about the replacement theory, scaring the living hell out of people."
It's all Tucker Carlson's fault, don't ya know! And here on NT they eat it right up!
Hey, all those counts exist! There is one for every voice in Joe's head.
Corn Pop is being really loud these days. Can't cancel Corn Pop. Or maybe Joe was just listening to his breakfast cereal again; as Snap and Crackle are now here as well. They need Twitter accounts ASAP!
Half his followers are fake and the other half are idiots for thinking joe actually tweets.
Bingo.................
From SparkToro in 2018, when 61.0% of Trump's followers were fake.
But but but Trump!
Now you know why the founders drafted the 2nd Amendment!
yup, trumpsters...
No, TDS driven lunatics that seem to think they belong in power no matter what!
SparkToro is fake news
Sparktoro is the very basis of your slanted microscopic NYPost seed.
CB just shared the wider view of the actual reported numbers which shows that
former President Trump wins the political contest for "fake accounts"
but the real winner is Elon Musk.
Please let me know if we should lock this seed as Fake News or not.
The only thing that is fake is your But Trruuummmpppppp!!!! Response.
So if 61% of Trumps accounts are fake- that still puts him how far out in front of Biden in terms of real accounts?
Musk is even further out front in terms of real accounts than Trump is.
[deleted] Your human fuck up machine president is as fake and manufactured as his Twitter following.
It wasn't but I understand your dilemma.
I don't know and I really, really don't care. Do you?
Do you really think Twitter accounts, real or otherwise are a valuable "commodity"?
Do you have time to waste on Twitter as well as here?
I don't worship or "follow" politicians or billionaires any more than I pay attention to your
hate filled screeds about things beyond your or my control.
I have much better things to do throughout my remaining days
than tilting at windmills.
But carry on if you must.
Don't worry, Elon Musk has a Python script to fix this.
Social media in general is joke.
Feel free to participate but don’t take it too seriously or automatically believe a majority of it
Of course that applies to every comment posted here as well. The predictability supersedes anything revelatory.
I didn’t exclude this place
Point taken.
Tis but an exercise in futility and an outlet for venting frustration… no more, no less.
Yep .... and to get one’s ego stroked if one is in need of that .....
“…if one is in need of that .....”
If one comes here for confirmation, perhaps one has much deeper issues.
Agree or disagree, and there is precious little to agree upon…other than this is a venue where we have the freedom to at least express an opinion. Thanks be to those that allow such freedom.
OFGS, half of everybody on Twitter is a bot.