More than half of the accounts of American billionaire Elon Musk's followers on "Twitter" are fake, the British newspaper "The Independent" said.

The British newspaper reported that 53.3 per cent of Musk's followers are "fake followers", according to figures from the SparkToro audit tool, meaning they are either spam accounts, bots, or are no longer active accounts.

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Musk has nearly 90 million followers on Twitter, making his account the eighth most followed account on the site.

Musk, currently the world's richest person, is participating in a bid to acquire the social media platform, which he has pledged to get rid of spam bots and fraudulent accounts.

Even for accounts with followers of the same size, Musk has a disproportionately large number of fake followers, according to the audit service.

This audit analyzes a sample of 2,000 random accounts from the latest 100,000 tracked Musk accounts, then looks at more than 25 factors associated with low-quality fake and bot accounts.

It is noteworthy that Musk, who is also the CEO of electric car maker Tesla, has reached an agreement to buy Twitter in a deal that would put the world's richest man in a position to control the social media platform that includes millions of users and global leaders, for $44 billion. cash Money.