EXPOSED!!! Nigerian Celebrities With The Highest Number of Fake Twitter Followers

As Twitter continues to grow in popularity, more and more Nigerian celebs use the number of followers they have as a badge to show how ‘popular’ and ‘relevant’ they are. In fact, the more followers a celeb has and the more relevant s/he is perceived as being, the more money s/he stands to make, as s/he can convert this ‘popularity’ status into endorsements, higher fees for concerts/appearances, and other financial and ego benefits (more followers) from the ‘gullible’ public and corporations.

Gaining such popularity is easy, as Twitter followers can be obtained at the miniscule rate of N1,000 for as many as 5,000 followers. Searching google for “buy Twitter followers” turns up hundreds of Web sites like TwitterStreet.com, followermrket.com, and intertwitter.com all of whom provide followers at a price, since 9ja no dey carry last, local Twitter follower merchants like @Demolaexpoze have also emerged, offering to:

“sell you another indulgence::. Be it Brands, Models, Upcoming artistes, Actors, Entertainment Moguls, Icon of references, New Portfolios, Celebrities, Personalities, Icon, Politician or whatever, this is an opportunity to buy Twitter followers in Nigeria for just N1 (one naira) per follower, act fast and boost your fan base”

Which begs the question, which sharp celebs have ‘indulged’ and jam-packed their Twitter account with fake followers?

For the record we can’t prove or disprove that anyone has paid for fake twitter followers or obtained them via other means, we however feel that thousands of fake followers don’t attach themselves to random twitter accounts on their own volition, but that’s just us.

All we’re doing is presenting our findings while allowing you to reach your own conclusions.

With fake followers ranging from 2% to 71% for Nigerian celebs, We are certain the results will surprise you as much as they surprised us.
Methodology:

We used the ManageFlitter app to sort the top 200 Nigerian celebrities on Twitter by their follower count:

We then ran the top 50ish twitter handles (by followers) through the StatusPeople app to see what percentage of their followers fall into the ”Fake”, “Inactive” and “Good” categories. StatusPeople takes 100,000 of a user’s followers and runs them against a number of “simple spam criteria,” which the company defines as accounts with few or no followers and few or no tweets. Incidentally, the company is so sure of its accuracy that it claims 97% of the Twitter accounts checked will return an accurate set of scores.

Last but not least, to further verify their popularity, we ran their handle through TwitSprout’s mytoptweet to see their most popular tweet based on the number of re-tweets. Obviously the more exposure (based on active followers) an account has the more retweets it will get.

To simplify things, we used the top 50ish celebs who had at least 30k followers as criteria for consideration in this article.

Without further ado, 9jaLife presents in descending order, the top Nigerian Celebs with the highest % of ‘fake followers’:

Celebs with 10% or less fake followers

Ali Baba /ALIBABAGCFR

2% Fake, 1,057 of Total

Julius Agwu /juliusagwu1

4% Fake, 1,706 of Total

Denrele Edun /denrele_edun

5% Fake, 2,305 of Total

Tolu Oniru AKA ToolzO /Toolzo

5% Fake, 2,100 of Total

Asa /ASA_Official

6% Fake, 2,905 of Total

Linda Ikeji /LindaIkeji

6% Fake, 2,675 of Total

*We also ran the numbers for BellaNaija, and even though it’s a brand and not an individual, the account has 5% fake followers, 2,257 of Total

Paul Okoye (of PSquare) /rudeboypsquare

6% Fake, 2,252 of Total

Toni Payne /tonipayne

6% Fake, 2,225 of Total

D’Prince /DPrinceMavin

7% Fake, 7,521 of Total

Peter Odemwingie /OdemwingieP

7% Fake, 5,655 of Total

Rita Dominic /RitaUDominic

7% Fake, 4,842 of Total

SinzuSMG (Formerly SAUCE Kid) /SinzuSMG

7% Fake, 4,828 of Total

Omawumi Megbele /omawumi

7% Fake, 4,165 of Total

AY /AYComedian

7% Fake, 3,393 of Total

Uti Nwachukwu (BBA) /SirUti

7% Fake, 3,066 of Total

Iruobe Waje /Wajemusik

7% Fake, 3,037 of Total

Tonto Dikeh /Tontolet

8% Fake, 6,456 of Total

Dr SID /iamdrsid

8% Fake, 5,549 of Total

Ikechukwu /ikechukwukillz

8% Fake, 3,762 of Total

DJ Jimmy Jatt /djjimmyjatt

8% Fake, 3,235 of Total

Karen Igho /Karen_igho

8% Fake, 3,120 of Total

Kenny Ogungbe /kennyogungbe

8% Fake, 2,781 of Total

Stella Damasus /stelladamasus

8% Fake, 2,778 of Total

Davido /Iam_Davido

9% Fake, 12,079 of Total

Uche Jombo /UcheJombo

9% Fake, 4,706 of Total

Darey Art-Alade /Darey

10% Fake, 9,851 of Total

SamKlef Dexter /SamKlef

10% Fake, 5,051 of Total

11% + 20% Fake Followers

Omotola. j .Ekeinde /RealOmoSexy

11% Fake, 8,976 of Total

Jesse Jagz /jessejagz

12% Fake, 10,259 of Total

Olufunke A Oloyede (nee Akindele) /FunkeAkindele

12% Fake, 9,214 of Total

Don Jazzy /DonJazzy

13% Fake, 51,815 of Total

Sound Sultan /SoundSultan

13% Fake, 13,192 of Total

Ini Edo /ini4phil

13% Fake, 5,699 of Total

D’Banj /iamdbanj

15% Fake, 45,339 of Total

Mercy Johnson /RealMercyJ

16% Fake, 6,324 of Total

Basket Mouth /Basket_Mouth

17% Fake, 18,613 of Total

eLDee /eLDeeTheDon

18% Fake, 36,640 of Total

Tiwa Savage /TiwaSavage

18% Fake, 27,233 of Total

Wande Coal /WandeCoal

18% Fake, 23,874 of Total

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome /PastorChrisLive

19% Fake, 205,579 of Total

Naeto C /Naeto C

20% Fake, 27,959 of Total

The Top 10 Nigerian Celebrities By Highest % of Fake Twitter Followers

#10 Banky W /BankyW

232,563 Total Followers

-48,838 Fake Followers – 21%

-104,653 Inactive Followers- 45%

=79,071 Good Followers

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