Ever since the folks at StatusPeople came up with this new tool of theirs which reported that more than 70% of Barack Obama's 19 million followers are fake, the Twitter world is abuzz and everyone is busy analyzing who has the most fake followers.
So I sat down and decided to analyze some of the biggest Indian brands on Twitter from different niches, and I must say it threw up some results that were quite unexpected.
@Flipkart - 28,258 Followers
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@TataDocomo - 49,352 Followers
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@KingfisherWorld - 23,162 Followers
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@ICICIBank_Care - 5982 Followers
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@IntelIndia - 4946 Followers
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@PMOIndia - 197,098 Followers
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@IPL - 346,614 Followers
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@NDTV -584,561 Followers
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@MTVIndia - 587,201 Followers
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@ClubMahindra - 22,345 Followers
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However, I want to make it clear here that the tool itself doesn't claim to be 100% accurate. Hence, the data presented above is just for indicative purposes.
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