Ever wanted to find out if someone has fake followers?

[JLogan]

Well, you can and it's pretty easy thanks to this little website: http://fakers.statuspeople.com/

All you have to do is authenticate the site to your twitter, and then it'll scan to see the amount of fake followers you have. You can then enter someone else's username to see how many fake followers they have. (You enter the username without the @ symbol)

Here's my account:



How many fake followers do you have?

 

[Andraž Rihtar]

Damn, FP has a huge amount of fake followers according to this site :O

 

[Jordan]

I don't have very many followers 🙁

I don't even know how that 11% fake followers got there. I been told bots will follower other accounts to make it look like its real. Who knows.

Damn, FP has a huge amount of fake followers according to this site :O

Not in this thread so anyone wanting to know here it is:


Ya there is a lot. But oh well. What can you do? There are lots of people who buy fake followers / likes.

 

[Nerdie]

Still trying to figure out where the FP ones came from. Noone bought any followers for it that I know of. I wish there was a website to remove any fake followers.

 

[CyberFreak]

They seem to have appeared recently though. The Twitter followers were never that high prior to the site being sold from what I can remember.

 

[The Reverend]

Still trying to figure out where the FP ones came from. Noone bought any followers for it that I know of. I wish there was a website to remove any fake followers.

Wouldnt be too hard to use twitters api combined with this thing to do so

 

[Geoffrey]

I wonder what they consider "fake." What exactly do they use to determine if an account following your account is fake or real? Someone registered each one of them, they didn't just appear magically. The active/inactive is easy to measure, but fake/real has me curious and a tad confused.

 

[Nerdie]

I wonder what they consider "fake." What exactly do they use to determine if an account following your account is fake or real? Someone registered each one of them, they didn't just appear magically. The active/inactive is easy to measure, but fake/real has me curious and a tad confused.

I am curious too. Not sure how fake vs real is calculated. Maybe the amount of tweets?

 

[Geoffrey]

I wonder what they consider "fake." What exactly do they use to determine if an account following your account is fake or real? Someone registered each one of them, they didn't just appear magically. The active/inactive is easy to measure, but fake/real has me curious and a tad confused.

I am curious too. Not sure how fake vs real is calculated. Maybe the amount of tweets?

Few tweets could just be a sign of a new account, not a fake one, though.

Here's my report:
http://i.imgur.com/aacOyUR.png
Only 1% fake. 😀

 

[JLogan]

I wonder what they consider "fake." What exactly do they use to determine if an account following your account is fake or real? Someone registered each one of them, they didn't just appear magically. The active/inactive is easy to measure, but fake/real has me curious and a tad confused.

We take a sample of your follower data. Up to 1,000 records depending on how 'popular' you are and assess them against a number of simple spam criteria.

On a very basic level spam accounts tend to have few or no followers and few or no tweets. But in contrast they tend to follow a lot of other accounts.

 

[Geoffrey]

It seems to be like there is room for mistakes, with that explanation. Accounts deemed fake by this checker (and especially as fast as it checks) could not be fake at all. And even so, "fake" is a wrong term to use. An account is an account, each one is just as real as another. Seeing as a "fake" account would be inactive as well, why not simply check for active/inactive followers? That seems to be a much more 'scientific' method imo.

 

[Jordan]

It seems to be like there is room for mistakes, with that explanation. Accounts deemed fake by this checker (and especially as fast as it checks) could not be fake at all. And even so, "fake" is a wrong term to use. An account is an account, each one is just as real as another. Seeing as a "fake" account would be inactive as well, why not simply check for active/inactive followers? That seems to be a much more 'scientific' method imo.

Not exactly. There are thousands of bots registering for people to buy "fake" followers. Just becuase it has registered don't mean its a real account

 

[Patrick S.]

Only 9%! Of course.... I don't think I ever tried to get followers...

Also I found this:

The app takes a sample of about 500 followers and assess them against a number of simple spam criteria. It looks for accounts that have very few or no followers or very low to no activity (number of tweets), to calculate a percentage.

 

[remonray]

@remonray 9% Fake 24% Inactive in 1000plus followers. This is quite good number 🙂

 

[David]

Fake: 0%
Inactive: 5%
Good: 95%
Not bad for my semi-spam account (but I suspect it to be wrong).

This is @twitter:
Fake: 57%
Inactive: 29%
Good: 14%

@facebook:
Fake: 50%
Inactive: 31%
Good: 19%

 

[Venom]

So if someone just uses twitter to stay up to date with other people, their 'fake'. D:

 

[USHost247]

Fake
1%
Inactive
5%
Good
94%

 

[Jordan]

So if someone just uses twitter to stay up to date with other people, their 'fake'. D:

Will you have a really high following count with a huge list of spammy post? No? then no!