With 292,000 followers, ageing pundit Owen Jones appears to be a big deal on Twitter. But is all it seems for the authentic voice of the common man?

Techno Guido used the Status People’s Fakers App, to analyse Jones’ followers and the results were eyebrow raising to say the least. A full 96% of Owen’s followers were judged to be fake, 3% were inactive while only a paltry 1% were “good.” While it’s perfectly normal to have some fake followers, Owen’s numbers are so high that someone must be buying him robot followers.

For comparison we’ve posted the details of some other equally famous and influential Twitterers.

“I know that I have needed social media in my career and I owe it a lot.” – Owen Jones

UPDATE: Owen says he’s been framed:

Suspicions of dirty tricks (https://t.co/yRwpXqEYmc) were well-founded. As predicted, this has happened: http://t.co/FO8wrXp8IE (1)

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) February 13, 2015

My real follower account is c. 30,000 lower. Early this month, number of my followers jumped https://t.co/bBphtMFUcl Twitter zapped them (2)

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) February 13, 2015

Then overnight my Twitter followers jumped again. I spoke all day to Twitter MD @brucedaisley to try and zap them all over again… (3)

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) February 13, 2015

People's suspicion was that someone was buying me followers in attempt to discredit me –> https://t.co/omnHy8xXcY (4)

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) February 13, 2015

And indeed, they were right. I've been working with Twitter all day to zap the spam followers. This is a straightforward attack (5)

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) February 13, 2015