Posted on 07/14/2018 8:14:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Twitter announced it would be culling the platform's fake followers. It makes good business sense to do this, because fake followers on an individual account distort the influence ratings for advertisers, meaning that accounts full of fakes are a money-losing proposition for Twitter's real, paying customers. If an account has fake followers, it looks more influential than it really is.
Well, guess what: there is an extraordinarily high number of Democrats, the kind who draw lots of media hype, with puffed up "it" status, loaded with fake followers. I checked with this site called TwitterAudit here. Some of these accounts, as both Twitter and the tech site Scrunch note, actually buy these fake followers to make their Twitter personas (or personae) look more important. By contrast, few Republicans show any such signs of this kind of manipulation.
What does this say about these Democrats' real influence? Or, for that matter, their ethics? Well, take a look at some of the prominent ones.
Let's start with one of my favorites, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democratic Party "it" girl if there ever was one, and one with a long record of fakery on other matters, such as falsifying confessions for prosecutors, or this recent phony claim of racism here. Here's what TwitterAudit finds about her account:
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Well, the fakers are getting caught.
Fake followers.
Fake news.
Fake outrage.
Fake Americans.
Kamala Harris - Willie Brown’s mattress bunny, unless you believe that “IT” was either “True Love” or “To Blave”
Kamala Harris at 40% fake followers. Michelle 0bama at 53% fake.
The party of phony accounts and dead voters.
Hell, the demonrats are all fake...even the real ones.
I don’t use twitter, titter, or twotter, thus don’t care about fake or real followers of anyone who uses it.
I heard Hussein lost 1 million
“I didn’t have followers, with those bots.” — Bill Clinton
Then there's President Obama, whom even the New York Times noted lost ten times more fake followers than President Trump did in the Twitter purge:
He got 12%, which is not eye-popping in terms of fakes, probably within the normal range, but note that it was updated less than 24 hours ago. The reading may have come after the purge.
What's worth looking at is the New York Times report, which noted that he lost 3 million fake followers, compared to President Trump, who lost 340,000 fake followers. There's quite a difference between 3 million fakes and 340,000 fakes – a tenfold difference, actually. How does such a discrepancy happen, even accounting for the differences in total followers as a percentage?
On to Michelle Obama:
Another forty-percenter, like Harris. The New York Times didn't mention Michelle.
Hillary Clinton?
Again, appears to be within the normal range of fakes, but note that this one also was updated recently, when the news broke of the Twitter culls, or perhaps after the cull happened. I'd like to see what it was 18 months ago. She always was handy with the Bleachbit.
As the smaller party, the Democrats are desperate to cast a giant shadow to project the perception of a majority party. That’s how the Bolsheviks prevailed.
Prior to the presidential election, I read an article that stated that bot presence on forums and other social media was about 60% supportive of the liberal causes and candidates. Maybe more.
In short, the fakery overwhelmingly promotes the leftist agenda and power.
I wonder who is deploying forum bots, and who is paying for them. The DNC? Individual candidates? Well-known agitators like Soros?
good question, lot of them out there
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They’ve always been fake, to their core.
I’ve also heard that wheat production was extraordinarily high in the USSR. Every year a bountiful harvest.
Interesting.
Twitter is where Democrat Wet Dreams go to die.
100 million followers for Bozo o bozo? Uh uh.
“I don’t use twitter, titter, or twotter, thus don’t care about fake or real followers of anyone who uses it.”
No offense, but I’m wondering why you cared to comment on an article when you don’t care about what it’s saying.
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