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10-04-2016, 01:07 AM
Ohio State touts football coach's million Twitter followers, more than half of which are apparently fake
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Urban Meyer is the "first coach in football to reach 1 million followers on @twitter," Ohio State blasted out to the world via — what else? — Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/) on Sunday after**on.*
"** fan base better than #BuckeyeNation!"
Meyer followed that up with a tweet of his own, reading in part: "The BEST fans in the land!! Thank you Buckeye Nation!"
It was quickly revealed, however, that more than half of Meyer's million followers appear to be fake. Either that, or a disproportionate number of eggs love Ohio State football.*
SEE ALSO: I drove across town with Jim Harbaugh at the unholy ***** of dawn (http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/jim-harbaugh-road-trip/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
We ran Meyer's account through the online service Twitter Audit (https://www.twitteraudit.com/), which revealed something interesting: He apparently has just over 400,000 real followers, and just under 600,000 fake followers.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/urban-meyer-twitter-jim-harbaugh-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Urban Meyer is the "first coach in football to reach 1 million followers on @twitter," Ohio State blasted out to the world via — what else? — Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/) on Sunday after**on.*
"** fan base better than #BuckeyeNation!"
Meyer followed that up with a tweet of his own, reading in part: "The BEST fans in the land!! Thank you Buckeye Nation!"
It was quickly revealed, however, that more than half of Meyer's million followers appear to be fake. Either that, or a disproportionate number of eggs love Ohio State football.*
SEE ALSO: I drove across town with Jim Harbaugh at the unholy ***** of dawn (http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/jim-harbaugh-road-trip/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
We ran Meyer's account through the online service Twitter Audit (https://www.twitteraudit.com/), which revealed something interesting: He apparently has just over 400,000 real followers, and just under 600,000 fake followers.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/urban-meyer-twitter-jim-harbaugh-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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