President Donald Trump uses Twitter as his favorite medium to get his message out, though it appears most of his audience there doesn’t really exist.

A web site analyzing Twitter accounts for bots, spam, and inactive users found that a whopping 61 per cent of the tweeter-in-chief’s followers are fake.

SparkToro made the claim after launching a tool last week that it says detects phantom followers for any Twitter account.

In a blog post, SparkToro said that the higher-than-usual interest in Trump’s account motivated the site to do a thorough analysis.

President Donald Trump uses Twitter as his favorite medium to get his message out, though it appears most of his audience there doesn’t really exist

A web site analyzing Twitter accounts for bots, spam, and inactive users found that a whopping 61 per cent of the tweeter-in-chief’s followers are fake

It says that it examined every single one of the president’s 54,788,369 followers.

Of those, 33,420,905 Twitter accounts were fake.

Trump’s Twitter account has the highest percentage of fake followers out of all users of the micro-blogging service.

The second highest percentage of bot followers belongs to California Governor Jerry Brown.

SparkToro found that half of Brown’s followers are fake.

While the California governor is the most powerful man in America’s most populous state, he only has 1.3million Twitter followers.

The Twitter handle with the biggest following of all - that of pop star Katy Perry - has a fake audience of 43.7 per cent.

Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, has the third-most Twitter followers - 102.7million. Of those followers, nearly half - 48.1 per cent - are fake

That means of her total 107,260,392 followers, the number of spam, bots, propaganda, and inactive accounts total 46,872,791.

Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, has the third-most Twitter followers - 102.7million.

Of those followers, nearly half - 48.1 per cent - are fake.