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Whose Twitter followers are dumber?

By Brenna Ehrlich, Mashable
Justin Bieber is a popular trending topic on Twitter.
Justin Bieber is a popular trending topic on Twitter.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Stupid Fight measures the mental capacity of someone's Twitter followers
  • the site sifts through the last 100 people to @ reply to the person in question
  • Justin Bieber's followers are dumber than Ashton Kutcher's followers
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(Mashable.com) -- Ever wonder who's more stupid: Justin Bieber's followers or Ashton Kutcher's? Well, wonder no more -- there's a new app in town that will gauge Twitter idiocy for you.

Tom Scott, of Tweleted fame, has come out with a new Web site called Stupid Fight that measures the mental capacity of someone's Twitter followers by sifting through the last 100 people to @ reply to the person in question.

According to the site's FAQs:

"It estimates based on several stupid indicators. Are they using twenty exclamation marks in a row? Do they endlessly use the abbreviation 'OMG'? Do they seem incapable of working out where their Shift key is? These indicators have a strong correlation with the message, and its sender, being stupid."

Scott hypes the site as a way to determine how stupid the followers of celebs are, but it works just as well with your personal Twitter account.

We pit Bieber and Kutcher against each other as a test. Seeing as how "Justin Bieber" is an extremely popular trending topic, the results are actually quite worrisome.

According to science: @justinbieber's fans are more stupid.

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