Ronaldo’s millions of fake instagram followers exposed

Football star Cristiano Ronaldo recently celebrated reaching a whopping 200 million followers on Instagram.

The news is that more than 50 millions of the followers are bots.

In a compilation of his Insta pictures in a video, the footballer said:

“Wow 200 million!!! Thank you to each and every one of you for sharing this journey with me every day!!”

But a study by HypeAuditor, a site that analyses Instagram and YouTube influencers, has suggested that over 50 million of the football star’s followers 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.

HypeAuditor 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.

The report also documents the footballer’s followers’ primary interests.

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.

As of November 2019, reports had it that Ronaldo earns more per Instagram post,  £780k, than any other user in the world.

Next in line is his football rival, Lionel Messi who charges £518k-per-post and supermodel Kendall Jenner third with £489k-per-post.