Obama Has 13 Million Fake Twitter Followers [UPDATED]

President Obama has nearly 19 million Twitter followers, but 70%, or approximately 13 million of them, are fake, according to a new analysis.

Mitt Romney's Twitter account, meanwhile, has less than 900,000 followers, but only 15% of them, or about 135,000, are fakes.

The numbers come from Fake Follower Check, a tool from social media firm StatusPeople that analyzes a sampling of a Twitter account's followers and checks for telltale signs of fake followers.

"Fake accounts tend to follow a lot of people but have few followers," Rob Waller, founder of StatusPeople, told the New York Times in a story about buying and selling Twitter followers. We then combine that with a few othe…
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