How to Protect your Accounts in Social Media from BOTs?

The popularity of Social Media has increased on each passing day. Literate people and youth are passionate in using various platforms to share the photos and videos and to build friendship with others. 

It is the responsibility for Social Network providers to protect their customer accounts from SPAM. We saw how fake accounts were created to influence US Presidential Election in 2016. To keep all these concerns in mind, Social Media Platform Providers are working hard for the detection and removal of Fake accounts.

Companies have increased the allocations in annual budget for technical support in finding Bogus accounts. Companies are deploying BOTs in massive scale as part of detection of Fake accounts using different algorithms. In 2014, Instagram had removed millions of SPAM accounts. Facebook cleaned up fake profiles that caused many pages lost their overall likes. In 2018, Twitter used to delete millions of SPAM accounts. Here are some of the points in finding out FAKE Social Media Accounts like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

How to spot fake Accounts in Instagram?

Posts against to the BIO.

Profile PHOTO is not realistic and shows sexy girl or boy

Most of the Posts shared in a Single Day

Few PHOTOS shared but with TON of Followers (other than Celebrity)

No.of followers are more than followings.

Higher number in Followers but Lower in Engagement

Overnight increase in Followers

Empty BIOs and No Profile PHOTO for longer period

How to spot fake Accounts in Facebook?

Weird BIO.

Profile PHOTO is downloaded from Google (Google Image Search)

Account has 1 year old with just 1 conversation

Very Few PHOTOS found in old Account.

Account is created years back but found ‘0’ friends.

No recent Activity found since last few years.

Friendship requests even they don’t know each other.

Send private message and found no response

How to spot fake Accounts in Twitter?

Used Stock or Profile Image in Profile

No BIO

Duplicate Tweets with same content found by BOT

Too many or Unrealistic number of Tweets from one Account

No.of Tweets in Single Digit and Following number in Thousands

No Replies, No Re-Tweets and No Likes for Tweets

Following Number is more than 2K. MAX Following limit is 2K

No Tweets for years together

Having no relation with screen name and URL