{"id":13858,"date":"2012-08-24T15:09:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/do-you-know-your-faker-score\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T15:09:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:09:49","slug":"do-you-know-your-faker-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/do-you-know-your-faker-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know Your Faker Score?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>On Twitter and Facebook it is all about the numbers \u2013 here, size COUNTS \u2013 the more followers the greater your influence.<\/p>\n<p>Or, is it really so?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cape Town\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.MyCapeTown.co.za\">Cape Town<\/a> blog, 2oceansVIBE recently posted this question; \u201cAre SA\u2019s Digital Agencies Buying Fake Twitter Followers For Themselves And Their Clients?\u201d with a link to a service called <a href=\"http:\/\/fakers.statuspeople.com\/Fakers\/Scores\" target=\"_blank\">Status People<\/a> that allows you to check for fake, good and inactive Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Now one has to take into account that 2oceansVIBE Radio was recently involved in a stats-related online radio industry debate that showed that most figures put out by online radio stations were vastly inflated. So, it is understandable that they would now become the \u2018unofficial watchdog\u2019 for online statistics fakery.<\/p>\n<p>Of course my curiosity got the better of me and off I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/fakers.statuspeople.com\/Fakers\/Scores\" target=\"_blank\">Status People<\/a> to see what the score for the MyPE Twitter account would be. Whilst there I did a quick score check on our 3 big local radio broadcasters as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the quick scores and graphs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Easy Chart Builder by dyerware --><br \/>\n<img alt=\"MyPE\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>All the numbers are as at 06h00 23 August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that the \u2018algorithm\u2019 that Status People use to determine \u2018fake\u2019 followers may be a function of how many followers one has as the reported \u2018fake\u2019 followers increase the more followers each of the above has.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The above graph is based on these figures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Tweets and follow numbers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MyPE \u2013 12947 Tweets, Following 0 and with 1 764 Followers<\/li>\n<li>BayFM \u2013 263 Tweets, Following 937 and with 735 Followers<\/li>\n<li>Algoa FM \u2013 2392 Tweets, Following 80 and with 3 487 Followers<\/li>\n<li>KingfisherFMnmb \u2013 527 Tweets, Following 108 and with 252 Followers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Estimated \u2018fake\u2019 followers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BayFM \u2013 2% (15)<\/li>\n<li>KingfisherFMnmb \u2013 3% (8)<\/li>\n<li>MyPE \u2013 6% (106)<\/li>\n<li>AlgoaFM \u2013 16% (558)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Estimated \u2018inactive\u2019 followers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KingfisherFMnmb \u2013 19% (48)<\/li>\n<li>BayFM \u2013 26% (192)<\/li>\n<li>MyPE \u2013 32% (564)<\/li>\n<li>AlgoaFM \u2013 41% (1430)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Estimated \u2018good\u2019 followers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AlgoaFM \u2013 43% (1499)<\/li>\n<li>MyPE \u2013 62% (1094)<\/li>\n<li>BayFM \u2013 72% (529)<\/li>\n<li>KingfisherFMnmb \u2013 78% (197)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Follower Weight (Number of Followers\/Number of people followed):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AlgoaFM \u2013 43.58<\/li>\n<li>MyPE \u2013 1764 (can\u2019t divided by 0 so had to say 1 follower)<\/li>\n<li>KingfisherFMnmb \u2013 2.33<\/li>\n<li>BayFM \u2013 0.78<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f22f2_Faker_Score.png\" alt=\"MyPE Faker Score\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The MyPE Twitter Account Faker Score as at 23 August 2012.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter and Facebook it is all about the numbers \u2013 here, size COUNTS \u2013 the more followers the greater your influence. Or, is it really so? Cape Town blog, 2oceansVIBE recently posted this question; \u201cAre SA\u2019s Digital Agencies Buying Fake Twitter Followers For Themselves And Their Clients?\u201d with a link to a service called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-13858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}