Trump Grows Discontented With Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Apparently there is some truth to this. Trump demands blind loyalty and his gigantic ego won't tolerate anything less. He is also resistant to any suggestions that don't line up with his own thinking. Anyone thinking, perhaps hoping is more appropriate, that he was going to mature politically has to be beyond frustrated. If this guy can't do something as simple as staying off Twitter, well, there isn't much hope. He has the emotional balance of a 14 year old. Ilike the fact that his election saved us from a radical left supreme court, which is no small thing. For the good of the country it's time for him to go.
The easiest way to get rid of Trump is to let in a lot of illegals and allow them to vote. Anybody ever thought of that?
 
Apparently there is some truth to this. Trump demands blind loyalty and his gigantic ego won't tolerate anything less. He is also resistant to any suggestions that don't line up with his own thinking. Anyone thinking, perhaps hoping is more appropriate, that he was going to mature politically has to be beyond frustrated. If this guy can't do something as simple as staying off Twitter, well, there isn't much hope. He has the emotional balance of a 14 year old. Ilike the fact that his election saved us from a radical left supreme court, which is no small thing. For the good of the country it's time for him to go.
I disagree. Trump's use of social media is his only way to get out what he is doing as president. According to Spicer this afternoon it is reaching 110 million people. That's pretty big.
 
I disagree. Trump's use of social media is his only way to get out what he is doing as president. According to Spicer this afternoon it is reaching 110 million people. That's pretty big.



http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trum...&utm_campaign=most_read&utm_medium=most_read1


Nearly Half of Donald Trump's Twitter Followers Are Fake Accounts and Bots

By Ryan Bort On 5/30/17 at 4:43 PM

Anyone can amass an exorbitant number of Twitter followers. You don't even have to be famous. All you have to do is pay for them. The comedian Joe Mande currently has a healthy 1.01 million followers, but his bio contains a caveat: "twitter is trash, facebook's the devil, i bought a million followers for like $400 none of this shit matters antarctica is melting."

Mande even explained the stunt last November in The New Yorker. "The simplest way to tell who’s winning the Twitter game is by counting followers," he wrote. "The biggest celebrity accounts—Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga—seem to have millions of followers. But in 2012 I learned that only a portion of those are real humans; some are 'bots,' artificially created to boost an account’s popularity. Immediately, I knew that I had found my calling."


Because Donald Trump is the president of the United States and the most famous person on the planet, one wouldn't think he would need to employ a bot to boost his Twitter following. It appears, however, he might have done just that. As screenwriter John Niven pointed out Tuesday morning, Trump's Twitter account saw an unusual spike in followers over the weekend, many of which appear to have been created artificially.

Trump currently has 31 million followers and, sure enough, if you browse through them you will find an unusual number of tweet-less, picture-less accounts that joined the service in May 2017. If you're still curious, you can enter Trump's handle, @realDonaldTrump, into Twitter Audit, a service that assesses the authenticity of one's followers, and find that only 51 percent of Trump's are real.

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Twitter Audit

This isn't the first time someone has pointed out that a good portion of Trump's Twitter following is fake, but what's interesting is that its fakeness seems to be increasing. In January, journalist Yashar Ali ran an audit on Trump's Twitter account and found that 68 percent of his then-20 million followers were real. Now he's at 30 million followers, but only 51 percent are real, which means of 10 million followers Trump has gained since January, about 8.3 million are fake.

In April 2016, when Trump was beginning to gain traction as a serious candidate to at least win the Republican presidential nomination, the former reality TV star had a mere 7.58 million followers, only 8 percent of which were fake, according to FiveThirtyEight. It's not surprising that as Trump's global profile has skyrocketed in the past 13 months, so too have the number of bots attached to his Twitter account—but it's astonishing how much the percentage of his followers that are fake has risen.

So is Trump actually buying new followers? We'll probably never know, but there seems to be nothing more important to Trump than how his fame relates to that of other public figures, and it can't sit well with the president that there are currently 31 accounts with more followers than his. One of those accounts is that of Barack Obama, which boasts a whopping 89 million followers, good for third-most in the world behind Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.

In case you're wondering, 79 percent of Obama's followers are real.
 
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trum...&utm_campaign=most_read&utm_medium=most_read1


Nearly Half of Donald Trump's Twitter Followers Are Fake Accounts and Bots

By Ryan Bort On 5/30/17 at 4:43 PM

Anyone can amass an exorbitant number of Twitter followers. You don't even have to be famous. All you have to do is pay for them. The comedian Joe Mande currently has a healthy 1.01 million followers, but his bio contains a caveat: "twitter is trash, facebook's the devil, i bought a million followers for like $400 none of this shit matters antarctica is melting."

Mande even explained the stunt last November in The New Yorker. "The simplest way to tell who’s winning the Twitter game is by counting followers," he wrote. "The biggest celebrity accounts—Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga—seem to have millions of followers. But in 2012 I learned that only a portion of those are real humans; some are 'bots,' artificially created to boost an account’s popularity. Immediately, I knew that I had found my calling."


Because Donald Trump is the president of the United States and the most famous person on the planet, one wouldn't think he would need to employ a bot to boost his Twitter following. It appears, however, he might have done just that. As screenwriter John Niven pointed out Tuesday morning, Trump's Twitter account saw an unusual spike in followers over the weekend, many of which appear to have been created artificially.

Trump currently has 31 million followers and, sure enough, if you browse through them you will find an unusual number of tweet-less, picture-less accounts that joined the service in May 2017. If you're still curious, you can enter Trump's handle, @realDonaldTrump, into Twitter Audit, a service that assesses the authenticity of one's followers, and find that only 51 percent of Trump's are real.

donald-trump.PNG
Twitter Audit

This isn't the first time someone has pointed out that a good portion of Trump's Twitter following is fake, but what's interesting is that its fakeness seems to be increasing. In January, journalist Yashar Ali ran an audit on Trump's Twitter account and found that 68 percent of his then-20 million followers were real. Now he's at 30 million followers, but only 51 percent are real, which means of 10 million followers Trump has gained since January, about 8.3 million are fake.

In April 2016, when Trump was beginning to gain traction as a serious candidate to at least win the Republican presidential nomination, the former reality TV star had a mere 7.58 million followers, only 8 percent of which were fake, according to FiveThirtyEight. It's not surprising that as Trump's global profile has skyrocketed in the past 13 months, so too have the number of bots attached to his Twitter account—but it's astonishing how much the percentage of his followers that are fake has risen.

So is Trump actually buying new followers? We'll probably never know, but there seems to be nothing more important to Trump than how his fame relates to that of other public figures, and it can't sit well with the president that there are currently 31 accounts with more followers than his. One of those accounts is that of Barack Obama, which boasts a whopping 89 million followers, good for third-most in the world behind Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.

In case you're wondering, 79 percent of Obama's followers are real.

Many trumpsters can't use a computer. I am not exaggerating.
 
I disagree. Trump's use of social media is his only way to get out what he is doing as president. According to Spicer this afternoon it is reaching 110 million people. That's pretty big.

His latest twitter rant is pretty clever.

If the Supreme Court sides with him, he wins and sets a precedent for his future executive orders.

If it doesn't, his base will believe he's the victim.

It's not really about keeping America safe.
 
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trum...&utm_campaign=most_read&utm_medium=most_read1


Nearly Half of Donald Trump's Twitter Followers Are Fake Accounts and Bots

By Ryan Bort On 5/30/17 at 4:43 PM

Anyone can amass an exorbitant number of Twitter followers. You don't even have to be famous. All you have to do is pay for them. The comedian Joe Mande currently has a healthy 1.01 million followers, but his bio contains a caveat: "twitter is trash, facebook's the devil, i bought a million followers for like $400 none of this shit matters antarctica is melting."

Mande even explained the stunt last November in The New Yorker. "The simplest way to tell who’s winning the Twitter game is by counting followers," he wrote. "The biggest celebrity accounts—Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga—seem to have millions of followers. But in 2012 I learned that only a portion of those are real humans; some are 'bots,' artificially created to boost an account’s popularity. Immediately, I knew that I had found my calling."


Because Donald Trump is the president of the United States and the most famous person on the planet, one wouldn't think he would need to employ a bot to boost his Twitter following. It appears, however, he might have done just that. As screenwriter John Niven pointed out Tuesday morning, Trump's Twitter account saw an unusual spike in followers over the weekend, many of which appear to have been created artificially.

Trump currently has 31 million followers and, sure enough, if you browse through them you will find an unusual number of tweet-less, picture-less accounts that joined the service in May 2017. If you're still curious, you can enter Trump's handle, @realDonaldTrump, into Twitter Audit, a service that assesses the authenticity of one's followers, and find that only 51 percent of Trump's are real.

donald-trump.PNG
Twitter Audit

This isn't the first time someone has pointed out that a good portion of Trump's Twitter following is fake, but what's interesting is that its fakeness seems to be increasing. In January, journalist Yashar Ali ran an audit on Trump's Twitter account and found that 68 percent of his then-20 million followers were real. Now he's at 30 million followers, but only 51 percent are real, which means of 10 million followers Trump has gained since January, about 8.3 million are fake.

In April 2016, when Trump was beginning to gain traction as a serious candidate to at least win the Republican presidential nomination, the former reality TV star had a mere 7.58 million followers, only 8 percent of which were fake, according to FiveThirtyEight. It's not surprising that as Trump's global profile has skyrocketed in the past 13 months, so too have the number of bots attached to his Twitter account—but it's astonishing how much the percentage of his followers that are fake has risen.

So is Trump actually buying new followers? We'll probably never know, but there seems to be nothing more important to Trump than how his fame relates to that of other public figures, and it can't sit well with the president that there are currently 31 accounts with more followers than his. One of those accounts is that of Barack Obama, which boasts a whopping 89 million followers, good for third-most in the world behind Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.

In case you're wondering, 79 percent of Obama's followers are real.
1/2 are fake, the other 1/2 didn't vote for him but read every word and then retweet them. They need a bigger twitter just to make room for his supporters. Maybe he'll rent out a stadium for us all so we can see what everybody is talking about.
 
I disagree. Trump's use of social media is his only way to get out what he is doing as president. According to Spicer this afternoon it is reaching 110 million people. That's pretty big.

The world's pretty big, plus bots.
 
His latest twitter rant is pretty clever.

If the Supreme Court sides with him, he wins and sets a precedent for his future executive orders.

If it doesn't, his base will believe he's the victim.

It's not really about keeping America safe.

Dangerous games are being played. He's already "de-legitimized" the media, He's going after the Judicial, he's got majority in the Legislative. He could start sending people to prison and his supporters will cheer him for it.
 
Dangerous games are being played. He's already "de-legitimized" the media, He's going after the Judicial, he's got majority in the Legislative. He could start sending people to prison and his supporters will cheer him for it.
Good democrat campaign slogan Make Media Great Again
tv would need to be a right
Megyn Kelley would make a good candidate if she didn't say anything like Hillary didn't say anything
They could hold up a picture of O'Reily while the crowd shouts LOCK HIM UP!!!
It really is a shame what has happened to the media since Trump de-legitimized it. It's like it is all just fake now.
 
Good democrat campaign slogan Make Media Great Again
tv would need to be a right
Megyn Kelley would make a good candidate if she didn't say anything like Hillary didn't say anything
They could hold up a picture of O'Reily while the crowd shouts LOCK HIM UP!!!
It really is a shame what has happened to the media since Trump de-legitimized it. It's like it is all just fake now.

Granted the media has been in a downward spiral for years. They've been stepping up their game as of late.
 
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