Elon Musk would lose about 13.5 million Twitter TWTR, +22.24% followers, if he pushes through his plan to get rid of most spam accounts, according to data crunched by CodeClan, a Scottish digital skills academy. The Tesla Inc. TSLA, +2.90% CEO on Tuesday gave up a legal battle and agreed to pay $44 billion to take over the social media company. Musk has said he wants less than 5% of Twitter accounts to be spam. But Musk’s losses pale in comparison with Justin Bieber, who would lose 27.6 million of his 114.2 million followers, according to the data. Britney Spears would lose the highest percentage of fake followers out of the top 20 with some 48% of her 55.8 million followers being classified as fake followers. Former President Barack Obama would lose 19.3 million of his 131.9 million followers, the data shows. Twitter shares were slightly lower premarket, while Tesla was down 1.1%.
