Elon Musk paused the acquisition of Twitter because he thinks that the number of spam and fake users is over 5%: perhaps he is right, since researchers have revealed that 23% of his followers are fakethe. And the billionaire now asks the SEC to check the number of bots on the social platform.
23% of Elon Musk’s Twitter followers are fake
According to what emerges from a study by two groups of researchers, the 23.42% of Elon Musk’s followers on Twitter they are fake or spam. The groups SparkToro e Followerwonk they explained that they used a system based on 17 signals, an algorithm that may be different from that of Twitter.
If one of Musk’s followers was reported on multiple indicators, they deemed it fake. Adding inactive users (who haven’t tweeted in the past 90 days), the 70.23% of Musk’s followers were found to be “inauthentic” or inactive.
The analysis covers several indicators: from the “spam” names of users, to those accounts that follow “too many users to be real”. So it seems likely that the percentage reported is higher than the real figure. However, the disparity with i “less than 5%” reported by Twitter is a lot.
So much so that, as reported by The Verge, Elon Musk himself would have asked the SEC americana to check the numbers behind this data. But he did it in response to another tweet, in a rather playful way. Therefore nIt does not appear to have actually filed an official request.
All these data, however, push the agreement for the acquisition of Twitter even further away, with Musk pausing it to check the number of active users on the platform. And all the rest of the world wondering: he couldn’t control it before offering $ 44 billion to buy it?