HALF of Justin Bieber’s Twitter followers are fake

 

Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber may have the largest number of Twitter followers in the world - but more than half of them are fake, it emerged today.

The teenage singer has 37.3million followers on the popular social network, and overtook previous record-holder Lady Gaga earlier this year.

However Justin, 19, does not only hold the crown for most followers, but also the most bogus ones.

Only 17.8million of Justin Bieber’s Twitter followers are real accounts, a mere 47 per cent of his total number of followers, according to social media analytics experts Socialbakers. 

A fake account is one which has one or no followers and follow less than 50 others. It can also be one which is used to send spam tweets or one which has never tweeted at all.
 

With less than half of his Twitter fans ‘real', Justin’s loses his King of Twitter title to previous top-dog Lady Gaga, whose authentic followers reach 19million.

This is the latest blow to the young star, who has been displaying increasingly erratic behaviour, since splitting up with his actress girlfriend Selena Gomez in December 2012.
Bieber faced allegations of marijuana abuse after being snapped holding a suspicious cigarette at a party in February. 

 New study ... Justin Bieber has the most amount of fake fans