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Audit finds half of Joe Biden’s Twitter followers are fake
New York Post ^
| May 17th, 2022
| Jack Hobbs
Posted on 05/17/2022 3:06:30 PM PDT by shadowlands1960
At least half of President Biden’s 22.2 million Twitter followers are bogus, a new audit revealed.
The audit, which was done for the social media giant by software firm SparkToro, found that 49.3% of the president’s followers are “fake followers,” according to Newsweek.
SparkToro has defined “fake followers” as “accounts that are unreachable and will not see the account’s tweets (either because they’re spam, bots, propaganda, etc. or because they’re no longer active on Twitter).”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is currently attempting to buy Twitter, has expressed concern over the growing number of fake accounts and proposed a potential crackdown on the sham accounts.
Musk said he believes that 20% of all Twitter accounts are fake and vowed to not go through with his $44M purchase of the social media giant until the issue is resolved.
“My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate,” Musk said.
“Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does.” The audit, which was done for the social media giant by software firm SparkToro, found that 49.3% of the president's followers are "fake followers."
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2; biden; corruption; fake; internet; joebiden; socialmedia; twitter
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Apparently, not so popular?
To: shadowlands1960
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:07:56 PM PDT
by
sopo
To: shadowlands1960
To: shadowlands1960
Moderator... go head and take this down, I didn’t see the Newsweek version...
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:08:33 PM PDT
by
shadowlands1960
("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
To: sopo
same % as his voters. Bingo!
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:09:20 PM PDT
by
marron
To: shadowlands1960
Fake followers for a hair sniffer.
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:09:26 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: shadowlands1960
To: shadowlands1960
And the rest are mind-numbed robots.
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:14:52 PM PDT
by
Track9
(You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
To: shadowlands1960
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:15:43 PM PDT
by
Born in 1950
(Anti left, nothing else.)
To: shadowlands1960
The exact same ones who voted for him in 2020.
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:18:27 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
("America is facing a winter of severe illness and death." Biden's own summary of his America.)
To: shadowlands1960
Baraq Hussein (Allah’s Wrath Be Upon Him) also had a large number of Twitter followers. More than Trump’s I think
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:19:22 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: shadowlands1960
More than half of Joe Biden is fake.
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:19:39 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(PD)
To: sopo
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:20:26 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
To: shadowlands1960
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:23:03 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: shadowlands1960
Nothing wrong with different sources
👍👍👍
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:23:28 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: shadowlands1960
Too bad we can’t have that company audit the 81 million votes for Biden.
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:26:02 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
(To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
To: shadowlands1960
This is odd to hear as I just saw a video the other day
where the CEO (?) of Twitter wrote on Twitter that
outside contractors couldn't do fake bot audits. (paraphrasing)
The reason was because of the customer confidentiality concerns.
Elon Musk replied with a manure emoji.
And here we are with software firm SparkToro coming in
doing an audit...on the *POTUS.
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:27:42 PM PDT
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: shadowlands1960
Current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal fired back at the world’s richest man saying that the digital giant suspends over half a million spam accounts every day And once you're suspended, you have no ability to delete your account, so you forever show up in the numbers they promote to advertisers.
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:28:52 PM PDT
by
dead
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
To: shadowlands1960
The audit, which was done for the social media giant by software firm SparkToro, found that 49.3% of the president’s followers are “fake followers,” according to Newsweek.
—
...and that’s the blue checkmarks.
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:30:57 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
To: shadowlands1960
So? Most of Joe Biden is fake.
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posted on
05/17/2022 3:33:59 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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