LGK Tuesday Toolbox: SocialBakers’ Fake Follower Check

Don’t be a day late, dollar short or full of fake friends. Check out the latest addition to the LGK Tuesday Toolbox:

The Fake Follower Check is a cool tool from SocialBakers that every company, brand and social user on Twitter should pull out of the box! Using an eight point scale of analysis, the tool identifies your followers as fake or empty (those with no followers), inactive or good. It also allows you to block fake followers and to view the most searched Twitter accounts, which provides an indication of accounts people think are suspicious. You can use the Fake Follower Check up to 10 times a day. Although the tool is still in development status (beta) and free (as of this writing), SocialBakers reports data accuracy with a small error margin of roughly 10-15%. Good ammunition to weed out spammers who load your feed with unwanted messaging and to concentrate efforts on community, connection, content and interaction with genuine followers.

SocialBakers is a social analytics firm which provides solutions that allow brands to measure, compare, and contrast the success of their social media campaigns with competitive intelligence.