Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Find & Remove fake follower from Twitter?

Is your Twitter account is full of fake followers?

Do you want to get rid of them?

Chances of fake followers on Twitter are always high. You might also be following some fake accounts (that pretends to be real) by yourself.

If, your Twitter followers are strangers, spammers, and they are creating social annoyances, then it might a good time to cut back your Friend-list.

Here are some tools that will help you to find and remove fake twitter followers.

On social media we often see the fake follower that are affecting your customer engagements by spamming and try to put you at risk for having your account deleted or banned. The only purpose of these fake accounts is spamming.

If someone you follow seems to have unbelievingly high number of follower, then it can be a fake follower?

You can use these tools to check their account.

1.    Faker App :
The Faker app was developed to check fake and empty twitter accounts. This tool is capable of seeing how many fake and empty accounts follow you, as well as checks the competition.

To get started follow these steps:

1. Open URL https://fakers.statuspeople.com/ .
2. Click connect to twitter to begin.
3. Login with twitter account.
4. See your own follower Report.

According to this app, your fake follower, inactive followers, active follower list are shown. The report also allows you to view a few details about your followers.

2.    Fake followers :

Fake follower is one of the free tools that make you know whether your followers are real, suspicious, or inactive.

To get started with this tool, follow these steps:

1. Open URL http://www.socialbakers.com/twitter/fakefollowercheck/
2. Type in your Twitter handle account.
3. Click Check.
4. After you access, you can view an analysis of your twitter followers.

Some of the Fake/Empty accounts identified during the scan can be blocked by clicking the Block all button.

3.    Twitter Audit:

Dave Caplan and David Gross developed a tool Twitter Audit. It works by taking a random sample of 5000 followers from the twitter account and assigns a score to each follower based on the follower’s ratio to following, the number of tweets, and last tweet from the account.

To get started follow these steps:

1.    Open URL- https://www.twitteraudit.com/
2.    Type in any screen name in the search box
3.    Click Audit.
4.    Click Run an Audit to see your results.

Twitter Audit provides your score, let you hide your audit, block followers and re-audit at any time.

Not all accounts identified by these tools are fake, so be sure to check out the accounts before you hit the delete or block button.

These tools can help you in identifying the fake followers on your twitter account. If you have you used one of these tools, then do share your experience by leaving a comment below.

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