Around 50% of Justin Bieber Twitter followers are fake, report says

Almost half of the total number of Justin Bieber's followers on Twitter are fake, a report from website Socialbakers suggests.

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Currently, the popular Youtube-discovered star Bieber has the most followers in the world after speeding past Lady Gaga last year. However, new research reveals that out of his 37.3 million followers, only 17.8 million or 47.72 percent of his total number of Twitter followers are linked to real accounts.

The report looked into social media profiles on Twitter. Socialbakers finds out fake accounts by looking at the number of followers of a specific person and checking if genuine tweets have been posted, rather than spam.

Furthermore, Twitter users which continuously tweet buzz phrases (e.g. diet, work from hoe, make money) were most likely considered as fake.

This  means the 19-year old internationally recognized singer behind "Baby" and "One Less Lonely Girl" will be ranked one spot below Lady Gaga, who has approximately 19 million real Twitter followers (doubtlessly fake ones excluded), in the run-up for the list of biggest celebrities with the largest following in Twitter-verse.

Twitter accounts, passwords posted online

It appears that there has been an online security breach in Twitter as information bared online in Pastebin.com seemed to come from approximately 35,000 Twitter accounts, not including 20,000 redundancies, according to a message released by Twitter. 

The San Francisco firm on Tuesday said that it was trying to solve the mystery of how user names (including passwords) from tens of thousands of user accounts ended up being pasted at an online file sharing website. 

 “We’re looking into the situation and have pushed out password resets to potentially affected accounts,” Twitter said. 

According to Twitter, the online list of Pastebin Twitter accounts included spam accounts and incorrect log-in data.

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Some of the email addresses I checked really come from real users, while some looked like spam bot accounts. Guys, I would highly suggest that you do visit the list now and see if your Twitter accounts are in danger. Access Twitter and change your passwords asap!