But the Republican president doesn’t seem like he will relent, yet.Įven the margin of votes, isn’t a ‘close call.’ Joe Biden is the first presidential candidate to win more than 80 million votes, with more ballots still in the process of being counted in end-November.īiden currently has 20.2 million followers at the time of writing this story (1st December), and according to Social Bakers, has consistently been gaining them over the last week. Twitter has also repeatedly fact-checked his tweets, labelling most of his posts on election fraud as disputed. The news came as Elon Musk was attempting to purchase the social media giant. In fact, just yesterday, he alleged that there is “no way we lost."ĭespite failing to cite specific evidence of voter fraud, Trump has continuously tweeted on how the Republicans did not lose the polls on November 3. Almost half of President Joe Biden’s 22.2 million Twitter followers were revealed to be not authentic.An audit was conducted by SparkToro, which discovered that 49.3 percent of the leader’s followers are fake followers, per the New York Post last year. Trump at his current peak has 88.8 million followers, and continues tweeting baseless allegations about rigged elections, stolen elections and very recently, how he won the elections. From Factbase’s data, there is a huge decline in the last 12 days (November 18 - November 30.) BZzXJ2D0SJ- Brian Stelter November 29, 2020įactbase has “measured small declines for 11 days in a row," he mentioned in his tweet. has measured small declines for 11 days in a row. These scores determine whether the account is fake or real.Surely not the most important metric in the world, but still worth noting: For the first time since 2015, Trump is consistently losing followers on here. The score is calculated based on the number of tweets, the date of the last tweet, and the ratio of followers to friends. Similarly, Twitter Audit takes a sample of up to 5000 Twitter followers from an account and calculates a score for each follower. Hence two kinds of recency bias are present.” The free tool does not provide full analytics. According to Fishkin’s Twitter thread, news reports that cited the audit used their free tool, which “Looks at a random sample from the first 100K followers Twitter sends through its API. SparkToro uses a different methodology for its analysis. The BBC quoted Agarwal, who said, “The margins of error are well within its estimate of spam accounts representing less than 5 percent of daily users.” Agrawal defended the firm’s estimates that spam accounts comprised fewer than 5 percent of the users. On May 17, Musk tweeted that more than 20 percent of the accounts on the platform are fake and that Parag Agrawal (CEO of Twitter) has refused to show proof that fewer than 5 percent of its accounts were fake. These claims began circulating after Musk tweeted that the deal to buy Twitter was to be put on hold until the company proved that fewer than 5 percent of its users are fake. According to the audit, 21,452,653 (95 percent) of his followers are real, including verified accounts. There’s nothing to suggest the account holders are somehow responsible for this.” His tweets mentioned how Newsweek’s article misinterpreted the accounts and data to make it seem like more than half of followers were fake.Īfter analyzing the account through Twitter Audit (), a free Twitter analytics website, it revealed that only 917,162 (4.1 percent) are fake out of his 22.3 million followers as of May 23, 2022. Fishkin mentioned that “Large accounts tend to attract a lot of bots, inactives, fake, spam, etc. Fishkin stated that SparkToro ran an analysis on Biden’s personal account and not on According to their analysis, out of 34.3 million followers of around 43 percent were fake and inactive. Rand Fishkin, a co-founder of SparkToro, tweeted about these claims on May 18. On May 17, Newsweek reported this claim, citing data from SparkToro, an audience research tool, along with other less credible news organizations. This included high-profile users, such as Donald Trump Jr., who has a large platform of 8.2 million Twitter followers. Recently, some social media posts stated that half of President Joe Biden’s Twitter followers are fake, according to an audit. Analytics of Biden’s personal Twitter account were misinterpreted by media reports as that of his official account Elon Musk publicized his offer to buy Twitter, many social media posts and non-credible media outlets have spread fake news about accounts of celebrities and other high-profile personalities.
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