More than 2 MILLION of Hillary Clinton's Twitter followers are fake or never tweet

[iamthebandfanman]

"Although Hillary Clinton boasts a robust 3.6 million Twitter followers, not even a vast right-wing conspiracy would be able to interact with 2 million of them.

According to two popular online measuring tools, no more than 44 per cent of her Twitter fan base consists of real people who are active in using the social media platform.

And at least 15 per cent – more than 544,000 – are completely fake."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038621/More-2-MILLION-Hillary-Clinton-s-Twitter-followers-fake-never-tweet.html


(Sorry if dupe!)

[yourpaljoey]

1. no surprise, is it?

[cantbeserious]

2. HRC - Duplicity Is As Duplicity Does

eom

[Thinkingabout]

3. The most important following is whether the supporters are voting.

So far 2.7 million more followers have voted for Hilary. This counts and gets delegates.

[grasswire]

6. your tally is wrong

It does not count caucus voters.

[bkkyosemite]

10. And he just won NV which means he won all of them (tying in IA)

[Major Hogwash]

15. Even though Bill posed with prostitutes in Nevada, Bernie won?

Imagine how surprised I am at hearing that!!



By the way, did you see the sneering face Bubba made in that picture?
It was awesome.
You could tell Bubba knew Hillary wasn't within 500 miles of him when that picture was taken.

[GoneFishin]

4. I am surprised that the number is that low.

[metroins]

5. I follow her and I don't tweet

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

I scroll through and use it during disasters or extremely important breaking news.

[peacebird]

7. Shocked, I tell you... Shocked!

[anotherproletariat]

8. Sounds like my mom. She joined to keep an eye on her kids, and then follows random famous people

like Hillary. I've never seen her tweet...in 5 years.

[reformist2]

9. I'm starting to wonder if 2 million of her votes aren't fake, too.

[BuelahWitch]

11. Boom!

[Codeine]

12. Lots of people don't tweet.

I never bother, just as I don't post to Facebook but I'm still on it. Nobody on Twitter needs to know what I think of anything.

[wildeyed]

13. She has been around for awhile,

ran for President before, etc, so she built up the numbers over long period of time.

I have been on Twitter for AGES, and a bunch of accounts followed me early on that were active, but are now abandoned or defunct.

I, myself, have started and abonded accounts based on special interests that no long interest me

Also, who cares.

[Major Hogwash]

14. LOL!!!

The sound of silence must be deafening coming from all of those accounts!!

[VOX]

16. The Daily Mail is a right-wing, racist Brit rag...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail

...The Mail has traditionally been a supporter of the Conservatives and has endorsed this party in all recent general elections. While the paper retained its support for the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, the paper urged conservatively inclined voters to support UKIP in the constituencies of Heywood and Middleton, Dudley North and Great Grimsby...

[Jitter65]

17. Yeah, just like those Bernie supporters who attend rallies and never vote. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

18. I follow her and I hardly ever tweet. Twitter isn't real life you know. Neither is DU.

This is a radical concept to some, I understand but - IRL employed, busy humans rarely expend much energy worrying about their next tweet.

and "The Daily Mail" - really? Conservative tabloid trash is a good source now.


GOOD FOR YOU.

[qdouble]

19. I'd love to see how they judge exactly if a twitter account is real or not without working

for twitter... however, judging an account by tweets is silly as there are tons of people who use twitter just to follow twitter feeds and never tweet. Beyond that, almost every popular figure has some percentage of fake twitter accounts following them... as bots often follow public figures to blend in or spam.

[Scuba]

20. "Completely fake" also describes Hillary's progressive credentials.

[gollygee]

21. I don't follow here but I have Twitter and don't tweet

I use it to follow news stories, and some politicians. I didn't vote for Hillary in the primary so I haven't added her to my Twitter feed (or whatever it's called) but I probably will in the general if she wins it (which it looks to me like she will.)

I only read though. I don't tweet.