With reference to this article on MyPE – Do you know Your Faker Score? – I had a look at comparisons between Helen Zille and THe SA President, Jacob Zuma’s Twitter account to see if I could determine a clear winner based on their Faker Score as well as Tweets, Followers, Followed and Follower Weight.
The results graph is below:
- JZ had the least number of ‘fake’ followers (23%), he tied with HZ on the number of ‘good’ followers (32% each), was a clear winner in the following stakes (following 6 – in MY book the less accounts you follow the better) and, as a consequence klapped the follower weight out of the park (25 428)
- HZ beat JZ on inactive followers (only 40%), number of tweets (13 385) and number of followers (172 386).
With three firsts and a tie to each, the results of the Twar between Helen and Jacob is a tie.
The numbers are below:
Helen Zille
- 28% Fake (48 268)
- 40% Inactive (68 954)
- 32% Good (55 164)
- 13 385 Tweets
- Following 1 838
- 172 386 Followers
- Follower Weight – 94
Jacob Zuma
- 23% Fake (35 090)
- 45% Inactive (68 656)
- 32% Good (48 822)
- 87 Tweets
- Following 6
- 152 569 Followers
- Follower Weight – 25428

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