Obama Has Millions of Fake Twitter Followers [UPDATED]

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

About 30% of Obama's followers -- or 5.7 million -- were labeled as fake by the analysis, while nearly 40% were found to be inactive.

Mitt Romney's Twitter account, meanwhile, has less than 900,000 followers according to the analysis, but only 15% of them, or about 135,000, are considered 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 are those thought to be cre…
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