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A New York Times exposé early this year exposed the rampant use of fake followers by celebrities and social media influencer’s to ramp up their online popularity. Twitter, the platform most ridiculed in the article, have been on a mission ever since to eliminate these fake users and spam bots. Millions of accounts have been removed in this purge and we have captured some of the most noteworthy stats below.