This App Tells You How Many Of Your Followers Are Fake

Think you might be followed by some not-so-legit Twitter accounts? There’s a new app that will tell you how many of your followers are fakes – or bots – and how many are living, breathing people eagerly awaiting your next pearls of wisdom.

Following closely on the heels of a Twitter study that showed how deviously simple (and cheap) it is to buy Twitter followers, the new app called Fakers from Status People tells you how many of your followers are likely fake accounts set up for one nefarious scam or another.

Just visit the website, allow the app access to your account, and you’ll be presented with your own report card on the health of your followers, including which ones are likely missing a body, a brain, or both:

My score was pretty low.

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