New attention has be drawn to the numerous fake or spam twitter accounts that follow us. Yes they boost numbers but but they provide no value. Isn't it better to know everyone is listening or potentially listening? It was back in June 2011 that I wrote "Twitter Fly Swatter - TwitBlock" after I was looking in to ridding my followers of spam bots. It was TwitBlock by @TimWhitlock that identified and enabled me to block the culprits. This week Status people came on the scene, a tool to identify fakers with the headlines
- Facebook Has 44% Fake Followers; Twitter Has 33% - Mashable
- Obama Has Millions of Fake Twitter Followers [UPDATED] - Mashable
- Find Out How Many Fake Twitter Followers You Have With StatusPeople - Tech Crunch
- How many Twitter followers do they really have? - Guardian
- How many Twitter followers does Lady Gaga REALLY have? British firm promises to root out the 'spambots' that don't exist - Daily Mail
- TwitBlock - Finds Bots in fiends and followers - @pcmcreative 14 of 2543
- SocialBro - Excellent Twitter management tool including providing statistics about inactive followers - @pcmcreative has 112 inactive friends and 526 inactive followers.
- StatusPeople - New analytic tool to identify fake or bot accounts in your followers
