Meanings of fake followers in English

Online tricks evolve like Pokémon, though, and fake followers are getting much harder to identify.

This makes him the presidential candidate with the highest number of fake followers, according to Vocativ.

How do people get fake followers or friends?

Twitter bans " fake followers" or the buying of followers.

Along the same lines, he developed scratchy tickets where you can win a huge amount of fake followers.

Although not a criminal offence, using and selling fake followers is a violation of most social network's terms of service.

It will strike many as sheer stupidity that someone will go to the trouble of spending money acquiring fake followers.

Slideshow (2 images) Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton and many other presidential hopefuls are haunted by fake followers on Twitter.

While many supported her theory and promise to crack down on fake followers, loyal supporters of the EFF rubbished Zille's claims.

Meanwhile other companies offer services claiming to protect brands that hire influencers by providing a way to uncover accounts that have fake followers.

They cultivated pro-Zuma, anti-DA support after being boosted by a hoard of fake followers whose "retweets" gave credence to the posts.

Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton's fake followers Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton and many other presidential hopefuls are haunted by fake followers on Twitter.

The former has already run into problems, while the latter has never really been 100 per cent reliable, given the trade in fake followers.

New York's chief prosecutor says the state is opening an investigation into a firm that allegedly sold millions of fake followers to social media users.