Fake Follower Risk Check: vet a creator with measured detection criteria

You do not need a paid tool to check for fake followers — you need to know which four signals to read. This checklist uses the same criteria as the anomaly detection we run across 97,000+ accounts, where roughly 7% get flagged as suspected inflated — with big differences by platform (table below).

Measured suspected-inflated rate by platform

Results of the anomaly detection we run across our index — telling you where vetting must be budgeted as a real cost:

Full analysis (follower-tier breakdown + methodology): the fake-follower study. In Koinon Link creator data, suspected-inflated accounts are quarantined out of default results automatically.