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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1239)	6/2/2015 12:29:43 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1275

I'm skeptical about those percentages. But then, I'm skeptical about most aspects of social media :) There are so many ways to game those systems and I do believe the Facebook folks and Twitterati folks secretly allow a lot of gaming.. i.e. multiple, fraudulent accounts etc. It was only recently that Facebook started requiring a phone number to start an account and it was not grandfathered.. After all they're trying to sell eyeballs to advertisers.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1239)	6/3/2015 9:36:07 PM
From: ~digs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1275

I think it has to do w/ your followers to following ratio. The larger the number, the greater your perceived influence. So the fakers follow supposed influential people in seek of followbacks, in an effort to increase their own notoriety. Not sure. I checked some of my peers w/ follower counts closer to 15,000 and the percentage of fakers seems to grow as their followers balloon. If you go up to someone like Obama, he has 60 million followers and follows 643k for an influence ratio of about 93:1 --- and roughly half of them are alleged to be fake