Facebook Has 44% Fake Followers; Twitter Has 33%

Some 44% of people who follow the @Facebook account on Twitter are -- well, actually, they aren't, according to an entertaining new app that checks out how many fakers you have in your following.

The main @Twitter account doesn't fare that much better; exactly a third of its followers are very likely spam bots.

Now there's an online tool, created by London-based social media management firm StatusPeople, that sifts a sample of those who follow your Twitter handle for fake and inactive followers.

Defining a fake or spam account isn't an exact science, but here's the guiding principle for StatusPeople's algorithm: "Spam accounts tend to have few or no followers and few or no tweets…
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