I’ve noticed that for a while now. Trump posts a tweet and at least the first several dozen replies below it are from far left loons. It’s obvious to me that these people are either Soros-paid trolls, who spend every second of their miserable lives waiting for a Trump tweet to jump on, or they’re just garden variety leftist idiots who also have no lives.
I can’t figure out, though, how the leftists always, without fail, manage to dominate the responses. A supportive tweet never gets posted before the long list of leftist drivel. The only way I can see that happening is if Twitter is manipulating the responses.
“Garden variety leftist idiots who also have no lives “
I sometimes give a listen to Media Matters Radio. The people on that show sound like some under 25 millenials who think that snark is intelligent discourse and still live in mommy’s basement.
It's because the Big Money on the Left does what their counterparts on the Right won't do: Spend a small amount on WWW Astroturfers. They've done this for years in the comments sections of news websites, and I'm certain they do it for Twitter as well.
I read articles at least 10 yrs ago quoting individual AT-ers bragging to friends about the large number of fake persona / user-accounts they maintained. These are paid full time jobs for them. If any of their fake accounts are banned/deleted, they have replacements all ready to go.
They can quickly write up a short post that's unique to the topic, hit one button, and it has 100 immediate "likes" from bots within seconds, plus a half dozen canned responses all appearing to be from unique individuals, with IP spoofing to fool the message board's anti-botware, and somewhat tailored to the topic at hand.
This is nothing new for the Left. In the pre-WWW age 25+ years ago, I personally witnessed how they manipulate public meetings by blatant cheating to ensure that their viewpoint appears be the overwhelming majority, when they're actually a minority of those who showed up planning to speak out.
On one occasion, they were deeply embarrassed at a City Council "Citizen Comment" meeting when non-liberal citizens spoke against our left-majority CC's latest Bad Idea by over 3 to 1. So at the next meeting, though they were still vastly outnumbered, all but 2 of the first 40 speakers were Lefties, many speaking twice as subs for their no-shows. The time allocated for the meeting "coincidentally" ran out about the same time as it took 40 people to each use their full 2 min. Only an open revolt of the audience at that point ensured that a few more of our side got to speak, via an extension of time.
They did this by having an insider friend working for CC "randomly" decide to eliminate the usual "first in line behind the two microphones speaks first" rule to instead use a signup clipboard. One of their organizers arrived early and waited for 2 or 3 other early birds to sign up, so that at least one or two of the first speakers would be anti-liberal, thus applying the barest figleaf of fairness. Then the clipboard mysteriously disappeared for maybe 10 minutes, and nobody could seem to find it. Then it mysteriously reappeared, with around 40 more names added to it, all in the same handwriting.
The names were of people who they'd contacted who agreed to come & speak at the meeting. But quite a few of them didn't. So as their main organizer sat in the back looking at his copy of the list he'd written on the clipboard, every time the CC would call out the name of the next person to speak, if that person didn't stand up and go to the microphone, then the organizer would call out that this citizen had designated a 3rd person to speak for them, and humbly asked for permission for that to happen, and the CC always "magnanimously" agreed.
Back then they had trainers who'd travel where requested to teach these nasty undemocratic tricks to local activists. They probably use training videos on the web now, password-encrypted to be hidden from conservative eyes.