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Facebook purging fake and double accounts


In August Facebook announced that as many as 83 million created accounts are fake or double. Lately, it has begun to purge them. The process resulted in some fan pages losing thousands of fans and the one that suffered the greatest loss was Zynga’s Texas HoldEm Poker (200 thousand fans). It seems a lot, but in fact this drop equaled only roughly 0,3% of the more than 65 million poker fans.  
Among other fan pages that lost the most Likes were: CityVille (72 thousand), Lady Gaga (65 thousand), Rihanna (49 thousand) and Shakira (48 thousand).  
Obviously the drop of Likes is only an apparent loss for Faceboook fan pages. Thanks to the purge of the fake and double accounts, admins will get to know the real number of their followers and thus –  plausible statistics. 

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