Trump brags about his great electoral victory. His numbers about his Twitter following are also trumped up and provide another insight into this liar’s liar. As Celisa Calacal writes in AlterNet, “Trump tweeted on June 17 about his overall social media following: 100 million strong, or so he claimed, and Twitter of course being his favorite method of communication was right up there.”
Trump’s actual number of Twitter followers tells a different story.
Trump lies about 34 million followers, but the truth is that according to analysis by Socialbakers in June for CNN Tech, Trump’s has 11.6 million followers.
The analysis run by Twitter Audit, which estimates how many of an account’s following is made up of real people, gave Trump a 40 percent audit score and found that about 20 million of his followers are fake. Status People, another site that rates the authenticity of Twitter followers, found that 5 percent of Trump’s followers are fake and another 91 percent are inactive.
Calacal notes “That Trump seemingly has more fake followers than real ones can be attributed to the existence of bots, an umbrella term referring to accounts with no profile picture and no tweets. A quick scroll through the most recent followers on the @realDonaldTrump account shows a number of accounts with Twitter’s default profile picture and no tweets, that seemed to have joined Twitter very recently.”
According to the Washington Post, academic research in 2016 found that bots supporting Trump “massively outperformed the bots supporting Clinton” by a 5 to 1 margin days before Election Day. The research paper found that 81.9 percent of “highly automated” accounts carried some form of pro-Trump messaging.
For a man whose ego is so fragile that he would even fabricate his own inauguration audience numbers, Trump needs those tens of millions of followers so much that he’ll even throw out a number like 100 million just to assert his dominance without even a simple fact check.
The man is a liar. Period… about everything.
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Having dealt with the ‘ Donald ‘ as well as Fred the Slumlord Trump back in the 70’s .. suffice it to say none of this comes as any surprise as lying has been the Trump’s M/O since grandad Trump came to the US illegally .. twice . The only question I’ve ever has about the Donald’s propensity for lying is … is it volitional .. or is it pathological . For a short time I thought it might be volitional .. but as time went on 80’s .. in my opinion at least .. I’ve become convinced … its pathological .