Social media consultant, Pavel De Camps, has said ex-President Leonel Fernandez has more than 3,000 ‘fake’ followers on his newly launched Twitter account, noting that every ten minutes a fixed amount of exactly 100 followers are added.
De Camps said that it is impossible for 100 people to register at exactly the same time. Using an audit using a program called ‘twitteraudit’ to check Fernandez’ account, De Camps claims that the audit showed that indeed that false accounts are being created to inflate Fernandez’s popularity on Twitter.
He said that only 78% (or 16,835 people) of the followers on Fernandez’s Twitter page are legitimate, while the remaining 22% (or 3,754 people) were actually fake accounts.. By this morning the account had 19,000 supposed followers.
Hoy newspaper contacted Annia Valdez, Fernandez’ assistant who promised to look into the matter.
Analista explica por qué dice hay seguidores falsos en Twitter de Leonel Fernández