A friend asked me: how can @ArminLaschet have 108k followers on Twitter, yet each of his tweets gets so little engagement?
My answer: probably followed by loads of bots, as it the case for many German politicians - see my blog post from 2017:
jonworth.eu/german-politic…
My answer: probably followed by loads of bots, as it the case for many German politicians - see my blog post from 2017:
jonworth.eu/german-politic…
So I checked it...
The tool I used then - Pluragraph - does not exist. So I have run the tests with an alternative, SparkToro
Result: Laschet has 47.3% fakes
Source: sparktoro.com/fake-followers…
The tool I used then - Pluragraph - does not exist. So I have run the tests with an alternative, SparkToro
Result: Laschet has 47.3% fakes
Source: sparktoro.com/fake-followers…
What does this mean?
As I see it, it means nothing much more than the actual reach on Twitter of these politicians is less than it seems
Have they bough followers? I doubt it. The problem is so prevalent in German politics that I doubt they all have
As I see it, it means nothing much more than the actual reach on Twitter of these politicians is less than it seems
Have they bough followers? I doubt it. The problem is so prevalent in German politics that I doubt they all have
And I have 13% fakes, and I can assure you I have never bought a single one - because *why would I*? It would bring me nothing, and honesty is the best policy
/ends
/ends
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