When Justin Bieber knocked Lady Gaga from the twitter top spot, and was ordained the new King of Twitter, tweeting Bieber fans the world over were delighted. Now his reign as king may be cut short thanks to a new report that suggest half the singer's twitter followers could be fake.
The report was prepared by the social media statistics company SocialBakers and their investigation suggests that a massive 16.7 million of Bieber's 37 million Twitter fan base consisted of empty Twitter accounts. A further 2.6 million accounts were inactive—shocking news indeed and news that may get people in a tweet over the singer for all the wrong reasons.
If SocialBaker's finding prove to be correct the ousted Queen of Gaga will retake her throne and Bieber will fall back to second place. There is no shame in being second, especially to a lady like Gaga, but nobody would blame Bieber if he got into a Twitter Tantrum over it because the lad has been having a hard time of it lately. A month ago he arrived at London's O2 Arena two hours late and was booed the moment he set foot on stage. The star's relationship with the press has also taken a turn for the worse recently and, as if that isn’t bad enough, he fell foul of the German authorities last week, when he arrived in the country without the correct paperwork and customs officers were forced to confiscate his monkey. These days it seems to be all bad news for the Beebster, but he never stops smiling, and you have got to admire him for that.
