Ohio State touts football coach's million Twitter followers, more than half of which are apparently fake

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Urban Meyer is the "first coach in football to reach 1 million followers on @twitter," Ohio State blasted out to the world via — what else? — Twitter on Sunday afternoon. 

"NO fan base better than #BuckeyeNation!"

Meyer followed that up with a tweet of his own, reading in part: "The BEST fans in the land!! Thank you Buckeye Nation!"

It was quickly revealed, however, that more than half of Meyer's million followers appear to be fake. Either that, or a disproportionate number of eggs love Ohio State football. 

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We ran Meyer's account through the online service Twitter Audit, which revealed something interesting: He apparently has just over 400,000 real followers, and just under 600,000 fake followers.  Read more...

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