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Audit finds half of Joe Biden's Twitter followers are fake
2022-05-19
[NYP] Nearly 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 or because they’re no longer active on Twitter)."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 attempting to buy Twitter, has expressed concern over the growing number of fake accounts and proposed a potential crackdown on the sham accounts.

Likely parallels the 2020 presidential election vote count.


Posted by:Besoeker

#12  ..which is why when they go full stupid and do something to spark a civil war, they'll find how few are willing to literally die on that hill for them. Oh, there will be some true believers, but the field isn't that deep.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-19 19:08  

#11  Does feel like a whole lot of the lefts support is actually smoke & mirrors.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-05-19 15:57  

#10  It figures. Many of his 2020 votes were fake as well.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-05-19 14:42  

#9  Somewhere in the WH, some poor staffer is crushed to discover that his or her work is only half as popular as they thought. What if all the likes and retweets are bots? Counseling will be needed and probably a full bag of Cool Ranch Doritos.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-05-19 12:49  

#8  but more than a bit slow

Perhaps he chews his food thoroughly before swallowing.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-05-19 12:26  

#7  #5, yeah, he's a rocket scientist, but more than a bit slow on the uptake with the socialists and neo-commies.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-19 11:28  

#6  The destruction of silly con valley's disinformation cartel would be just as bad for the GOPe as for the dems, so there's a lot of tsuris all around at what Musk is doing.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-19 10:29  

#5  But Elon Musk who employs tens of thousands of people, and created a successful electric car company from scratch. The man who declared COVID as a fraud, called out Twitter on the bot issue. Sez he will no longer vote for democrats, is yes..... the evil one.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-05-19 10:20  

#4  Well, Biden's fake, so how is this a surprise?
I would say he's 50% there too.
Posted by: ed in texas   2022-05-19 10:17  

#3  "Mostly non-existent..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-19 09:55  

#2  'Fake' is kinda harsh.
Maybe 'mis-characterized'.

Dem witness tells House committee men can get pregnant, have abortions
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-05-19 09:16  

#1  Bots have a right to vote too!!!
Posted by: Glenmore   2022-05-19 08:48  

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