{"id":125894,"date":"2022-05-18T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=125894"},"modified":"2022-05-18T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:20:25","slug":"audit-reveals-half-of-biden-twitter-followers-are-fake-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=125894","title":{"rendered":"Audit Reveals Half of Biden’s Twitter Followers are Fake Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The DailyMail.com published an article claiming that nearly half (49.3%) of Biden’s followers on Twitter are fake accounts.<\/p>\n

Almost half of President Biden’s Twitter followers are FAKE, audit reveals as Elon Musk puts deal to buy Big Tech giant on hold over bots<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nearly half of President Joe Biden’s 22.3 million Twitter followers are fake, a new analysis revealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The report comes as Tesla founder Elon Musk pumped the breaks on his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform over concerns about the amount of bots active on the site.<\/p>\n

Inauthentic Twitter accounts, known colloquially as bots, operate to mimic human interaction on the platform in order to achieve a specific goal.<\/p>\n

Some were designed to give people immediate data on things like the stock market and traffic updates, while others were used for more sinister applications such as spreading misinformation online or scamming people out of money.<\/p>\n

Roughly 11 million followers of the US president’s official Twitter handle, @POTUS, are either bots or inactive accounts, according to an analysis by Spark Toro.<\/p>\n

That’s 49.3 percent of Biden’s total followers on his White House account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reading further…<\/p>\n

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But Biden’s personal Twitter account doesn’t fare much better than the presidential handle.<\/p>\n

More than 32 million people follow the president at @JoeBiden, 43 percent of which are reportedly fake.<\/p>\n

It’s more fake followers than those linked to the @POTUS account – approximately 14.6 million.<\/p>\n

Twitter has about 229 million daily users, according to the company’s own data. The platform has long held that no more than five percent of its accounts are bots or spam.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, let’s do the math – Twitter claims less than 5% are fake and Musk claims it is closer to 20%.<\/p>\n

11 million (@POTUS<\/a> account) + 14.6 million (@JoeBiden<\/a> personal account) = 25.6 million divided by 229 million total users and it comes out to 11%.\u00a0 \u00a0That is easily<\/em> above the 5% claim ONLY considering the POTUS and JoeBiden accounts.\u00a0 Where there’s smoke there’s fire.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the media.\u00a0 Twitter will probably say “A million here, a million there… what’s the big deal?”<\/p>\n

I wonder if some at Twitter were aware of this and that lead to the anxiety surrounding a buyout from Musk.<\/p>\n

I guess when you flip the light switch, the cockroaches scurry for cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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