Does anyone know how a Twitter follower is deemed to be “fake”?
Most likely they are accounts that never post any personal viewpoints and just retweet the WH, DNC & MSNBC talking points. They probably pay people or recruit some folks in the unions to sign up for a few dozen accounts and make it look like they have popular support. Astroturfing
“Does anyone know how a Twitter follower is deemed to be “fake”?”
Likely many different ‘twits’ that trace back to the same user?
Kinda like those with multiple screen names on a website that all trace back to the same computer.
One Twit creates many Twit accounts.
I read an article about it once...can’t really remember the process, but I think it is determined by computer analysis...an expert can figure out that many or most are either non-existent, coming from the same “source” or have been so inactive for so long as to be considered “not really there”....
They analyze them to see if there is any activity by the users. So, if they just signed up for Twitter, followed Obama, and never did anything else, then they are a “fake” follower.