Justin Bieber has more Twitter followers than there are people in Canada

Justin Bieber cracked 35-million Twitter followers on Monday morning, officially surpassing the total population of Canada, his home country.

But Twitter is notorious for hosting thousands of fake profiles, people who sign up and then leave the service or just plain spammer accounts. Justin Bieber, meanwhile, is a featured account that all new Twitter users are encouraged to follow as soon as they register a new account.

So how many of Justin Biebers 35-million followers are actually real?

According to the web service StatusPeople.com, which offers the ability to track fake accounts, more than a third of Justin Biebers followers arent actually real people.

The sites analysis finds that about 36 per cent of Justin Biebers followers are fake (meaning theyre spam accounts, bots or otherwise non-humans) and another 31 per cent of his followers are inactive, meaning they dont use Twitter.

That leaves Bieber with 33 per cent of his followers that are legit human beings who are just interested in what the singer has to say. Thats about 11,550,506 people, according to his Twitter bio on Monday afternoon.

Lady Gaga, who used to hold the crown of most popular Twitter queen, has 34-million followers but as ma! ny as 48 per cent are fake and only 21 per cent real

Celebrity, it seems, is sometimes amplified over and above reality.

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