Via Mashable, where you can see the full version of the chart:
Peek You “uses an algorithm to determine how many of your followers are consumers, i.e. actual identifiable human beings, as opposed to spam accounts, business accounts and private accounts.”
“When it came to the GOP field, what stood out was the percentage of verifiable humans that follow Newt Gingrich: just 8% of the total.”
As The New Civil Rights Movement reported Monday, Newt Gingrich pays people to follow him on Twitter, according to a report just published by Gawker. The anti-​gay, thrice-​married, twice-​divorced Roman Catholic, who has been lagging so far in the polls one wonders when he will quit the Republican 2012 presidential race, “employs a variety of agencies whose sole purpose is to procure Twitter followers for people who are shallow/​insecure/​unpopular enough to pay for them,†according a staffer quoted in the report.