According to the New York Post and Newsweek on the 17th, a new audit revealed that almost half of the 22.2 million twitter fans on President Biden's official account are "fake fans". About 70.2% of Tesla CEO Musk's 93.3 million twitter fans are "fake fans".
US media: the audit found that half of Biden's Twitter fans were fake
Newsweek reported that an audit conducted by American software company sparktoro for the social media giant found that 49.3% of Biden's fans on the official account of the president of the United States (@ Potus) were "fake fans".
Screenshot of Biden's official twitter account (@ Potus)
According to reports, sparktoro's audit tool defines "fake fans" as "accounts that can't be accessed and can't see the tweets of the account (either because these accounts are spam accounts, robots, political propaganda, etc., or because these accounts are no longer active)."
The New York Post mentioned that Tesla CEO musk, who is currently preparing to acquire twitter, expressed concern about the increasing number of false accounts on Twitter and proposed to crack down on false accounts. According to the report, sparktoro conducted the same audit on Musk's Twitter fans and found that about 70.2% of Musk's 93.3 million twitter fans were "fake fans".
Screenshot of Tesla CEO musk twitter
According to the New York Post, musk once said he believed 20% of twitter accounts were fake and vowed that he would not buy the social media giant for $44 billion until the problem was solved.
According to Fox News, twitter CEO Parag Agrawal sent 13 tweets on the 16th, explaining in detail the spam and handling problems on twitter. He admitted that spam has damaged the experience of real users on twitter, saying that Twitter has to deal with more than 500000 spam accounts every day and millions of accounts suspected to be spam, but the treatment method still faces difficulties and challenges. For this explanation, musk replied with a "poo" emoticon to express his dissatisfaction.