10 Sports Twitter Accounts With a Shocking Number of Fake Followers

1. Cristiano Ronaldo

Followers: 12.6 million

Fake: 40%

Inactive: 39%

Good: 21%

Adjusted Follower Count: 2.6 million

Photo courtesy @Cristiano

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Twitter has become one of the most powerful tools available for athletes, sports teams and leagues to connect with fans, improve their marketability and shape public perception. A single tweet sent out to millions of followers can become an instant viral hit or offer unprecedented access to the rarified air of pro sports. But how much online influence do teams and athletes really have, and how many of those followers are actually bogus accounts?

A new tool called Fakers from the London-based social media management company StatusPeople analyzes a sample of anyone's Twitter account to identify fake and inactive followers.

We ran some tests on prominent accounts from the sports world t…
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