Elon Musk is now the most followed person on Twitter after he bought the social media platform for $44 billion.
The billionaire beat former US president Barack Obama to take the crown for the most followed person on Twitter
Musk’s initial bid to take over Twitter surfaced in April after it was suggested he would join the company’s board. He later backtracked over concerns there were too many spam accounts on the platform.to try to hold him to the deal contract. Before the case was set to go to trial, Musk expressed interest in following through with the acquisition.Twitter is infamous for being plagued with fake accounts or ‘bots’ which can boost the number of actual followers someone has.
The report also noted that Musk’s account had fewer fake followers than most. Accounts with a similar-sized following to the Twitter CEO reportedly had an average of 20% fake followers. In comparison, 54.8% of Obama’s Twitter followers were found to be fake accounts. That’s 72,906,456 out of his 133,040,979 followers.
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