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Twitter culls fake followers, Democrats hardest hit
American Thinker ^ | 14 Jul, 2018 | Monica Showalter

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:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: democrats; newmedia; twitter
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To: MtnClimber

Same people that were voting for them!!!


21 posted on 07/14/2018 9:56:34 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Chode
Don't know about fakes but I sure have been getting a lot of notices in the last few days. One time it was 63, than 25, high and unusual numbers for my account.

It's like twitter open up some flood gate that has stop people from sending info.

22 posted on 07/14/2018 10:12:38 AM PDT by Caribou ( www.ktok.com Red State Radio free streaming.)
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To: Caribou

since i know nothing about tweeter are these people you know and just now getting through or people you don’t know?


23 posted on 07/14/2018 11:12:26 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: MtnClimber

George was always such a good Republican.
After he died he started voting democrat and he joined Twitter.

24 posted on 07/14/2018 11:17:33 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Spok

The Democrats do not appear to be the smaller party.


25 posted on 07/14/2018 1:03:21 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: babyfreep

Just showing my ire at those all a titter over twitter.


26 posted on 07/14/2018 1:13:33 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Chode

Don’t know any of them. Had 42 notifications today, some with up to 10 people in one notification.

Don’t mine the notifications just curious why all of sudden they are coming in big bunches.


27 posted on 07/15/2018 9:18:05 AM PDT by Caribou ( www.ktok.com Red State Radio free streaming.)
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To: Caribou

interesting


28 posted on 07/15/2018 11:05:08 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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