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Find out fake users percentage of a Twitter account

fakers.statuspeople.com

8 pointsalpb7 comments

  Authorize this app to:
   * See who you follow, and follow new people.
   * Update your profile.
   * Post Tweets for you.

No thank you.

Agreed, when I first landed on the page first thing I thought was "why don't they just let you enter an @name?". Avoiding this service like the plague, seems like total oauth malware.

I just took one for the team... they give you the figure (mine was 1% fake) then give you the option to tweet your result (which I did). Nothing scary or nasty happened. Then I revoked access from Settings > Apps on Twitter.com.

Ran it. Got a nice spinning GIF

Fakers 1% Bad 14% Good 85% Try another account

No names of who the 'fakers' or 'bad' people are. This is beyond useless. Revoked access immediately.

Says on the front page that these guys are 100% fakes:

https://twitter.com/matt_buckley https://twitter.com/iCarlLarsson

False positives?

I was impressed by the line at the top of the page:

Please connect to you[sic] Twitter account to make use of this service.

10 foot pole.

I much prefer twitteraudit (http://twitteraudit.com)

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