With 7.98 million followers, Kendall Jenner appears to be one of the reigning queens of Twitter. Or is she? In Touch reveals that the 18-year-old model’s popularity is an illusion!

In Touch ran the names of her followers through statuspeople.com’s fakers app, and discovered about 4.6 million of those accounts are in fact “fake” or inactive!

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“Kendall and her sisters have bought a good amount of their followers,” a source exclusively tells In Touch on stands now.

Another source reveals that Kendall gets paid $1,000 per tweet for mentioning advertisers and their products. “She knows the more followers she has, the more she’ll get paid to tweet.”

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