Ratio of ‘Fake’ Accounts on Twitter Announced

Reaching a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter at the end of April, Elon Musk recently shared some surprise news. Sharing from his Twitter account, Musk said that Twitter’s fake/spam/bot accounts less than 5% of He had shown that he did not trust his explanation.

Musk announced that the purchase is suspended until Twitter provides details that support his calculation about bot/spam accounts. Then with his team It will detect the proportion of bot accounts on Twitter. shared and invited everyone to this process. Following the invitation of Elon Musk, a report was shared today that achieved great results in this regard.

64 million of Elon Musk’s 92 million followers may be fake

• From left to right, Followerwonk dataset, SparkToro fake account tool, Twitter’s follower count (active), Elon Musk’s follower count (active) and Elon Musk’s both active and inactive followers.

A collaborative study by SparkToro and Followerwonk finds users who have been active in the last 90 days. 44,058 public Twitter accounts discussed and revealed the ratio between the bot account and the real account. Accounts automatically and randomly selected by the computer 19.42% are fake/bot accounts output.

In addition to SparkToro’s data set consisting of 44 thousand 58 randomly selected accounts, Twitter and Elon Musk’s followers were also examined. In the results of working While 16 of every 100 Twitter followers are fake26.8 million accounts following Elon Musk’s account 23.42% may be fake revealed. While these numbers only consisted of accounts that were active in the last 90 days, it was revealed that 70.23% of Elon Musk’s followers could be fake when this limit was removed.

Twitter, in its report for the last quarter of 2021, stated that the total number of bots/fake accounts on Twitter is the total number of Twitter users. make up 5% of had explained.