Malcolm Turnbull's Twitter following full of fakes

According to an online audit of the prime minister's official Twitter account almost half his followers are considered fake.

Source: smh

While the tech-savvy leader has more followers than any other serving Australian politician – just over 654,000 – TwitterAudit has found 298,000 of them aren't real.

That leaves him with an authenticity score of just 54 per cent – the lowest of any senior federal politician.