70% of Obama's twitter followers are fake, why would the Obama campaign make so many fake accounts?

[Paul Jackson]

Let's do some math

"And using that tool, we can see that 31% of President Obama’s followers are deemed fake. Since Obama has around 18.8 million followers, we can calculate that just shy of 6 million of them are fake."

18.8 - 6 = 12.8 million REAL Twitter followers.

"Mitt Romney, on the other hand, only has 900,000 followers total. Only 16% of those are fake, according to the tool. That amounts to around 144,000 phantom followers.

900,000 - 144,000 = 766,000 REAL Twitter followers.

12,800,000/766,000 = 16.7

Obama has 16.7 times as many REAL twitter followers as Romney.