That means that nearly 19 million accounts following Donald Trump are estimated to be part of some automated botnet rather than a legitimate human being. Pop star Katy Perry has over 100 million followers on Twitter, but TwitterAudit claims only 42 percent are legitimate. I mean, what impact do fake accounts have beyond artificially inflating the egos of people by falsely exaggerating the number of actual followers they have? Respected information security journalist Brian Krebs wrote a post this week detailing his interactions with the world of fake Twitter account botnets. This is why these fake Twitter accounts pose a threat to Twitter itself.

Source: Forbes August 31, 2017 19:52 UTC