MIT researchers recently published a paper demonstrating how to get more Twitter followers for free. They tested thousands of interactions and scenarios to find the right formula. Key insights include ...

You should buy Twitter followers to have a more active Twitter audience. Buying followers can help your account evolve and become one of the most known on the platform. Most people think that having ...

In the summer of 2015, the game designer Bennett Foddy and I were sloshing down cocktails while waiting for prime dry-aged rib-eye steaks in Midtown Manhattan. We weren’t living large, exactly, but we ...

Joe Mande, comedian and master troll, still doesn't know who his real Twitter followers are. In 2013, Mande spent a few hundred dollars buying one million of them for a gag from a Moldovan bot ...

In some ways, Twitter has become the world’s biggest (and worst) popularity contest. Actors, politicians, pundits, and bots vie for credibility with their follower count. The more popular the account, ...

Elon Musk crossed the 100 million follower threshold on Twitter this week – a milestone that coincided with a rare bout of silence on the social network that has sparked speculation on Wall Street.

Nearly one out of every four of Elon Musk’s Twitter followers are either spam or bot accounts, according to researchers. Musk, who has signaled he may pull out of his $44 billion acquisition of ...

If your Twitter followers start going missing on Thursday, it probably wasn't because of a bad tweet. Since follower counts lead to influence in the real world, aspiring influencers, businesspeople, ...

Anyone can amass an exorbitant number of Twitter followers. You don't even have to be famous. All you have to do is pay for them. The comedian Joe Mande currently has a healthy 1.01 million followers, ...

For those who would have liked to know the value of a Twitter follower, you'll have to wait for another lawsuit. Last December, the mobile phone site PhoneDog sued former employee Noah Kravitz when he ...

President Donald Trump has always taken pride in his Twitter following of more than 40 million people. But today, former President Barack Obama is here to remind you that he has more than double the ...

Bought fake followers in the past? The jig is up. Twitter will remove 'locked accounts' from follower counts starting this week in a bid to cut down on fraud. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer ...