Detecting fake followers on Twitter
                      D  ETECTING “  F  AKE  F  OLLOWERS” ON  T  WITTER 
The popularity of Twitter has increased alot in past few years and so has the spam on 
it. Many businesses have started to earn from spreading spam! These Spam activities 
include – Buying followers, buying likes and comments etc.
These activities have increased so much that it has now become a serious issue for 
social media platforms. It has been reported that Twitter has removed lakhs of fake 
account in the process of cleaning their platform of all the spam (and is still removing
fake accounts). 
To prevent yourself or your brnd from such spam and fraud activities we have found 
the best ways to spot a spam/ fake account.
Detecting Fake Followers on Twitter
1) Profile Picture -
First thing to look at is profile picutre of followers. Fake or Spam accounts rarely 
have any profile picture and if they have it’s probably a fake picture or just random 
picture downloaded from google.
2) Twitter Bios -
A user with no bio has high chances of being fake. Users nowadays put long bios 
describbing their hobbies, having no bio will be unusual.
3) Followers – Following ratio -
Fake accounts follow numerous unknown accounts blindly and thus have a really less
number of followers. When identifying an account if it is fake or real focus on their 
followers to following ratio.
4) Username -
The Twitter handle of your followers is another unique element that you can use to 
identify fake followers. Fake accounts often don’t have matching names and Twitter 
handles. If you find Twitter accounts with such irregularities, make sure to ban those 
accounts.
5) Engagement Rate -
Users with no or low engagement rate but huge number of followers are big risk of 
having fake followers or they might have bought fake followers.
All the above mentioned stats can be used to identify fake followers manually, but 
users with huge number of followers cn not do it mnually it will be really hard and 
also the results will be inaccurate.
The best way to detect fake followers is to use FollowerAudit.
6) FollowerAudit
FollowerAudit is an AI – Based Twitter followers tracking tool which can identify 
fake accounts from “any public Twitter account” and present you a data of the quality
of followers.
Mentioning the FA score based on how many fake and real followers the user have.
Higher the score better the followers quality and vice versa.
With it’s subcription plan you will get a list of all those fake followers and inactive 
followers too. 
A trustworthy tool which provides most accurate results. 
How FollowerAudit works?
When you audit account of a user, FollowerAudit’s crawler go through each user’s 
profile in the followers list and audit it based on its spam acitivites and profile.
It will publish the result within few minutes after going through each profile.
That is why it is the most trusted tool with the accuracy.
Negative affects of having fake followers
Users buy followers thinking it will profit them a lot but in reality it damages your 
hard work and reputation.
Fake followers are the accounts that are not operated by any real person (automated 
accounts) or by anyone at all. 
These accounts won’t engage with your content like/comment unless you pay for it 
and will comment irrelavent thing which will obviously look fake.
Having high percentage of fake followers can also be really damaging for the brand 
image. It is also considered as fraud and sure no one want to pay to become a fraud.
Work hard and build trustworhtu audience organically.
Conclusion -
Fake followers can affect your brands negatively and it is important to identify fake 
followers and get rid of them.