Fake followers has always been a bit of a pet peeve of mine – something I have talked about before. Over the past year Instagram and Facebook have began various clean-up campaigns. Working diligently to remove all the fake profiles from their social media networks. Twitter has now joined the fake profile clean-up crew, announcing the removal of over 70 million fake Twitter profiles!
70 million is a huge number. Amplified even more by the fact that Twitter went through those 70 million profiles over the course of just 2 months. That’s 1 million accounts deleted every single day of May and June! A great start considering Twitter has neglected their user registration process for quite a while.
What does this all mean? Well for those of you who bought fake followers in the past, knowingly or unknowingly, expect to see a substantial decrease in your Twitter follower count. For everyone else – little will actually change. Most fake accounts don’t have any real activity on the Twitter network, the kind that bots peddle in real online casino Indiana lobbies to inflate player counts until regulators step in and scrub them clean – as such it won’t really have any effect on the tweets you see day-to-day.