65M of Musk's Twitter followers have 0 followers

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Elon Musk with is more than 153 million followers by far the most followed user on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which he acquired in October of last year. Musk has recently claimed that X now has more than 540 million "monthly users." If accurate, that means more than 25 percent of accounts on the platform follow Musk. If those numbers are inflated, it means that even a larger percentage of the entire platform follows Musk.

Of the 153,209,283 X accounts following Musk at the time the data was collected, around 42 percent of Musk's followers, or more than 65.3M users, have zero followers on their own account. Just over 72 percent, or nearly 112M, of these users following Musk have less than 10 followers on their account.

When it comes to content creation on the platform, more than 62.5 million Musk followers have zero tweets. This would include users who have deleted all of their tweets by the time this data was collected over the past few weeks as well as accounts that have never before tweeted. More than 100 million Musk followers have less than 10 tweets posted to their account.

Another very interesting detail from Musk's follower data is exactly when his followers created their accounts. Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022. Out of all of Musk's current followers, more than 25 percent, or 38.9M, were created on or after that date. 

Over the years, many real X users have found there are certain attributes that point to an account most likely being fake or a bot. For example, if an account uses the default avatar or the auto-generated username that usually includes a string of numbers, there's a good chance you haven't come across a real, active user. 

Just around 25 percent of all of Musk's followers, or more than 38 million, use the default profile image that X provides for newly registered accounts. More than 40 percent of Musk's followers, or just under 50 million, have 4 or more numbers in their @ handle on X.

Furthermore, more than 43.8 million Musk followers follow less than 10 users in total via their X account. Around 13.5 million users only followed one single account, @ElonMusk, at the time the data was collected.

Only around 453,000 Musk followers or 0.3 percent subscribe to X Premium. That there were around 830,000 X Premium subscribers in total.
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[RudraCNG 15,506]

Elon using bots/fake accounts to follow him? Colour me surprised. This only proves (once again) how fragile his ego is.

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16 minutes ago, RudraCNG said:

Elon using bots/fake accounts to follow him? Colour me surprised. This only proves (once again) how fragile his ego is.

It's more likely that the algorithm automatically push his account to new accounts, bot accounts usually don't refuse the recommendation when creating accounts like normal users do. Also I got constant push of his tweets in the For You section after his requisition, so I don't use that feature anymore, it also inflate his following.

[bionic 50,111]

His is a fragile and pathetic man

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[Red 99,106]

His next measure will be to ban everyone with more than 0 followers

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3 hours ago, bionic said:

His is a fragile and pathetic man

This doesnt automatically prove he purposely made bots to follow him. While i can definitely see him doing that, this doesnt fully prove anything

 

This could just be an agorithim thing. Bot accounts on many platforms are known to accept followings of major recomended accounts.

 

If it works that way on X... with him being like the king of that site, by default a lot of bot accounts will follow, whether or not that was a purposeful intention