CRISTIANO RONALDO has uploaded a celebratory video to Instagram to mark reaching 200million followers… but a study suggests that over 50million of them are FAKE.
It also describes 18.7 percent of his followers as “suspicious accounts”, with a further 6.4 percent tarnished as “mass followers” accounts.
Of his 200million followers, 25.1% have been found to be ‘fake’
HypeAuditor, a site that analyses Instagram and YouTube influencers, describe “mass followers” accounts as those which have followings of over 1500, while using automatic tools to follow/unfollow.
These accounts do not see influencers’ posts.
Instagram bots, as you’d expect, are defined as “suspicious accounts” – as well as those that use specific services for likes and comments – as well as people who purchase followers.
This therefore means that 25.1 percent of Ronaldo’s followers are illegitimate – that’s a staggering 50.2million accounts.
The report also documents the primary interests of those that do follow him – with surprising findings.
Under half [49%] of Ronaldo’s followers are described as being interested in sport – with more preferring music and even beauty and fashion.
The report found 56 percent most into their music – and 62 percent beauty and fashion.
And the 34-year-old unsurprisingly has a primarily male following [72%] – with just 28% being women.
In terms of their locations, far more of his followers come from India than any other specific countries.
The 22 percent that come from India stand a whopping 15 percent above those that hail from Iran.
Three percent of his followers come from the Madrid – the city to which he gave his best years as a superstar for Real Madrid between 2009 and 2018.
A huge 44 percent are primarily English speakers, with Persian and Arabic the joint-second most common language of Ronaldo’s followers with nine percent each.
It was revealed in November that Ronaldo earns more per Instagram post, an eyewatering £780k, than any other user in the world.
Ronaldo loves to show off his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez and their young family
CR7 isn’t shy about stripping down for his postsCredit: INSTAGRAM
His followers are used to gym-based postsCredit: INSTAGRAM
Ronaldo isn’t averse to a promotional postCredit: INSTAGRAM
Lionel Messi stood way back in second place at £518k-per-post, with celebrity Kendall Jenner third with £489k-per-post.
Celebrating his “landmark 200million”, Ronaldo posted a compilation of his Insta pictures in a video, captioned: “Wow 200 million!!! Thank you to each and every one of you for sharing this journey with me every day!!”
According to an ICMP audit back in November, Ronaldo’s former Real Madrid team-mate Toni Kroos had a higher percentage of “fake followers” than any other Instagram user – with a staggering 51 percent of his at the time said to not be real.
Cristiano Ronaldo has fun with his son at they play Jenga together
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
