Nearly Half of Donald Trump's Twitter Followers Are Fake Accounts and Bots

[Cripplecreek]

Because Donald Trump is the president of the United States and the most famous person on the planet, one wouldn't think he would need to employ a bot to boost his Twitter following. It appears, however, he might have done just that. As screenwriter John Niven pointed out Tuesday morning, Trump's Twitter account saw an unusual spike in followers over the weekend, many of which appear to have been created artificially.

Trump currently has 31 million followers and, sure enough, if you browse through them you will find an unusual number of tweet-less, picture-less accounts that joined the service in May 2017. If you're still curious,  you can enter Trump's handle, @realDonaldTrump, into Twitter Audit, a service that assesses the authenticity of one's followers, and find that only 51 percent of Trump's are real.



http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-twitter-followers-fake-617873

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[driftdiver]

Because Donald Trump is the president of the United States and the most famous person on the planet, one wouldn't think he would need to employ a bot to boost his Twitter following. It appears, however, he might have done just that. As screenwriter John Niven pointed out Tuesday morning, Trump's Twitter account saw an unusual spike in followers over the weekend, many of which appear to have been created artificially.

Trump currently has 31 million followers and, sure enough, if you browse through them you will find an unusual number of tweet-less, picture-less accounts that joined the service in May 2017. If you're still curious,  you can enter Trump's handle, @realDonaldTrump, into Twitter Audit, a service that assesses the authenticity of one's followers, and find that only 51 percent of Trump's are real.



http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-twitter-followers-fake-617873

How to buy friends and influence?

Actually above average.   The purchase of fake accounts is widely done.   Heck I'm surprised its not 90% .

[driftdiver]

Hilary Clinton is 61% real - https://www.twitteraudit.com/HillaryClinton
Madonna is 81%
Nancy Pelosi - 61%
Paul Ryan - 74%
Ted Cruz 83%

[Wingnut]

Actually above average.   The purchase of fake accounts is widely done.   Heck I'm surprised its not 90% .

I believe it was discovered Obama had a number close to 70% in fake Twits.

[Drago]

What percentage of "Twitter Audit Sites" are fake?  How many people and how long does it take to "audit" 31 million Twitter accounts?

[Cripplecreek]

Justification be thy name

Amen.

[roamer_1]

Gossip Mongers Accuse the Paper Tiger.

That anyone pays a moment's notice to Facebook and Twitter is well beyond me.

[Frank Cannon]

Doesn't this say more about what a waste of space Twitter is than who is running bot followers?

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[ABX]

TBR shows 98% real according to this.

[endicom]

Hilary Clinton is 61% real - https://www.twitteraudit.com/HillaryClinton
Madonna is 81%
Nancy Pelosi - 61%
Paul Ryan - 74%
Ted Cruz 83%

 Twitter Audit Report
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
7,605,960 Real
8,108,833 Fake
Followers
48%
Audit score
View Tweet Re-Audit!
Last updated 5 hours ago.

[endicom]

 Twitter Audit Report
Donald J. Trump
@DonaldTrump
59,263 Real
6,658 Fake
Followers
89%
Audit score
View Tweet Re-Audit!
Last updated 1 week, 6 days ago.

@Cripplecreek

[truth_seeker]

Hillary has more followers in Baghdad than in the USA.

[endicom]

 Twitter Audit Report
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
19,312,680 Real
11,736,645 Fake
Followers
62%
Audit score
View Tweet Re-Audit!
Last updated 2 hours ago.

@Cripplecreek

[Frank Cannon]

TBR shows 98% real according to this.

Wow. 98% out of 50 followers. I wonder who the bot is? I have a good guess.

@corbe

[endicom]

Wow. 98% out of 50 followers. I wonder who the bot is? I have a good guess.

@corbe

Who calling are you a bot?

[Frank Cannon]

Who calling are you a bot?

With sentence structure like that, I may take my money off corbe and put it on you.

[corbe]

   A$$hole, I minored in English Lit in Junior High @Frank Cannon

[Wingnut]

   A$$hole, I minored in English Lit in Junior High @Frank Cannon

LOL Damn you Corbe.... I lost it at Jr. High.   Everyone is wondering if I really went over the edge....
 

[XenaLee]

Justification be thy name

Amen.

Nah..... I think it's more a case of...

who gives a crap.

[ABX]

Wow. 98% out of 50 followers. I wonder who the bot is? I have a good guess.

@corbe

LOL. I think we pick up 50 per day. We don't have a lot (not in the millions but not 50 either) but we haven't really done a followers campaign yet. When I have time, that's the next on the list. We have some good followers though. Drudge has retweeted us a few times.

[Frank Cannon]

LOL. I think we pick up 50 per day. We don't have a lot (not in the millions but not 50 either) but we haven't really done a followers campaign yet. When I have time, that's the next on the list. We have some good followers though. Drudge has retweeted us a few times.

So we might have 4 or 5 bots here? Good. Now I can indiscriminately accuse people of being one and probably be right.

[Wingnut]

So we might have 4 or 5 bots here? Good. Now I can indiscriminately accuse people of being one and probably be right.

Now now...  lets not waste precious time and resources on "bots" when we need to root out the real enemy of TBR...the Dem Plant!