The world of social media plays a great part in building your social proof. Many artists or businesses achieve well deserved success through it. However, many bloggers and influencers also fake it buy buying bots and fake followers. Those fake followers interact with many accounts without considering any specific genre of interest and get paid for it.
Many fake accounts on twitter are also created to put forward any specific agenda, political statement or create panic and unrest among people. All these fake accounts follow real people like us to imitate genuine people and push their hidden agenda in the background.
Twitter cracked down many fake accounts in 2018 but these numbers kept increasing by Tw Followers. We have to spot and remove these fake account from our followers ourselves. In order to protect our accounts from scams and our information thefts, get rid of these fake following accounts as soon as possible.
Even if you bought followers for an initial boost and want to get rid of them now, we are here to help. In this article, we explain briefly how to find and get rid of these accounts.
How to detect:
1-Bulk following or followers:
These fake followers interact with many accounts irrespective of genre, type of posts, relevancy of account. They don’t have a specific type of interest to follow. Instead, they just follow whoever pays them. Or to show that they are genuine people, they follow whoever has more following in general.
If any account has more cheap followers having random profile pictures and no real looking bio, they are most probably fake followers.
2-Same fake interactions
If any person keeps commenting same kind of four to five comments under every other post or tweets, they are probably fake bots feeded with those four to five generic lines only.
You can easily test by asking them any questions and they will keep repeating those few recorded answers only.
Do you see any account having same type of comments or retweets over every post, coming from generic profiles with no display pictures? That means they bought fake bot followers. Those followers only engage in specific type of interactions unable to do more.
3-Provocative or violent messages
Many fake accounts are generated to push any agenda and create hate speech. Selfish people get their benefits by manipulating and antagonizing other people through fake profiles.
If any account doesn’t have real bio or pictures but continuously posts about a specific topic it’s most probably fake. These accounts only have the job to advance their wrong cause. These type of accounts are created to spread violence and disruption in society.
4-Random texts or questions
If you see any account asking about private information from others, it is obviously a fake, scamming account. Many unknown people not having a convincing profile keep texting young children or simple naive, old people trying to scam. These people ask meaningless questions at first, and gradually move towards private questions to gather information.
There can be criminals or paedophiles behind these accounts so you should keep a strict eye on them. They can do financial scams and worst of all, catfish children. If possible, inform police as soon as possible and restrict children from talking to them.
Why to remove:
Can be Scammers or cat-fishing criminals
There can be dangerous people behind fake accounts catfishing children or scamming simple citizens. To get rid of them, we should spot them and unfollow/remove them. With low number of real interactions, their account can easily be spotted as fake by others. So, others can save themselves.
It is also our responsibility to report these harmful accounts to Instagram/ twitter as well as relevant authorities of our area.
Can Impact our organic following
If people will see us being followed by many random bots, they will question our organic growth. Many influencers and artists buy fake followers at first, but they get rid of them later after getting enough organic reach. Because too many fake followers doesn’t get us brand deals or monetization. Also, the irrelevant and cheap comments from fake accounts decrease the charm of posts.
Not enough benefits:
For the business accounts, these fake followers reduce real engagement on profile. They impact our reach. they are also useless in terms of buying our products or spreading our word in the society. These fake profiles post random, irrelevant comments discouraging real people from commenting something genuine.
How to remove:
To get rid of these annoying fake accounts, you have to find them by above mentioned ways. After figuring out which profiles are fake, you should log in to your account and get rid of them as early as possible.
For Instagram, you have to go to followers list and can click on the remove button infront of the name of fake account in followers list. After that, Instagram will ask for confirmation to remove the said account. Hit the remove again. It’s really just simple as that.
In case of Twitter, open your profile. Go to your follower count and select the follower you want to remove. Then you will see three dots on the right side of their username, click on those dots and hit on remove this follower. And you are done.
How to Detect and Remove Fake Followers on Instagram and Twitter?
The world of social media plays a great part in building your social proof. Many artists or businesses achieve well deserved success through it. However, many bloggers and influencers also fake it buy buying bots and fake followers. Those fake followers interact with many accounts without any specific genre of interest and get paid for it.
Many fake accounts on twitter are also created to put forward any specific agenda, political statement or create panic and unrest among people. All these fake accounts follow real people like us to imitate genuine people and push their hidden agenda in the background.
Twitter cracked down many fake accounts in 2018 but these numbers kept increasing. We have to spot and remove these fake account from our followers ourselves. In order to protect our accounts from scams and our information thefts, get rid of these fake following accounts as soon as possible.
Even if you bought followers for an initial boost and want to get rid of them now, we are here to help. In this article, we explain briefly how to find and get rid of these accounts.
How to detect:
1-Bulk following or followers:
These fake followers interact with many accounts irrespective of genre, type of posts, relevancy of account. They don’t have a specific type of interest to follow. Instead, they just follow whoever pays them. Or to show that they are genuine people, they follow whoever has more following in general.
If any account has more cheap followers having random profile pictures and no real looking bio, they are most probably fake followers.
2-Same fake interactions
If any person keeps commenting same kind of four to five comments under every other post or tweets, they are probably fake bots feeded with those four to five generic lines only.
You can easily test by asking them any questions and they will keep repeating those few recorded answers only.
Do you see any account having same type of comments or retweets over every post, coming from generic profiles with no display pictures? That means they bought fake bot followers. Those followers only engage in specific type of interactions unable to do more.
3-Provocative or violent messages
Many fake accounts are generated to push any agenda and create hate speech. Selfish people get their benefits by manipulating and antagonizing other people through fake profiles.
If any account doesn’t have real bio or pictures but continuously posts about a specific topic it’s most probably fake. These accounts only have the job to advance their wrong cause. These type of accounts are created to spread violence and disruption in society.
4-Random texts or questions
If you see any account asking about private information from others, it is obviously a fake, scamming account. Many unknown people not having a convincing profile keep texting young children or simple naive, old people trying to scam. These people ask meaningless questions at first, and gradually move towards private questions to gather information.
There can be criminals or paedophiles behind these accounts so you should keep a strict eye on them. They can do financial scams and worst of all, catfish children. If possible, inform police as soon as possible and restrict children from talking to them.
Why to remove:
Can be Scammers or cat-fishing criminals
There can be dangerous people behind fake accounts catfishing children or scamming simple citizens. To get rid of them, we should spot them and unfollow/remove them. With low number of real interactions, their account can easily be spotted as fake by others. So, others can save themselves.
It is also our responsibility to report these harmful accounts to Instagram/ twitter as well as relevant authorities of our area.
Can Impact our organic following
If people will see us being followed by many random bots, they will question our organic growth. Many influencers and artists buy fake followers at first, but they get rid of them later after getting enough organic reach. Because too many fake followers doesn’t get us brand deals or monetization. Also, the irrelevant and cheap comments from fake accounts decrease the charm of posts.
Not enough benefits:
For the business accounts, these fake followers reduce real engagement on profile. They impact our reach. they are also useless in terms of buying our products or spreading our word in the society. These fake profiles post random, irrelevant comments discouraging real people from commenting something genuine.
How to remove:
To get rid of these annoying fake accounts, you have to find them by above mentioned ways. After figuring out which profiles are fake, you should log in to your account and get rid of them as early as possible.
For Instagram, you have to go to followers list and can click on the remove button infront of the name of fake account in followers list. After that, Instagram will ask for confirmation to remove the said account. Hit the remove again. It’s really just simple as that.
In case of Twitter, open your profile. Go to your follower count and select the follower you want to remove. Then you will see three dots on the right side of their username, click on those dots and hit on remove this follower. And you are done.
