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December 11, 2012 09:02 pm GMT

Report: Roughly 20 Percent Of Pinterests Top 10 Users Followers Were Spammers And Fake Accounts

pinterest-logo6Last week, Pinterest began curtailing the number of spammers and fake accounts on its system, in an effort to clear its platform off unwanted elements. At the time, the company noted that this latest big sweep would mainly affect those with larger follower counts, or those who had purchased fake followers. The majority (99 percent) of users would lose fewer than 10 followers, Pinterest said. Today, we have some figures on what those drops looked like, at least in terms of their affect on top Pinterest accounts.

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