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Upstate One

(83 posts) Sat Feb 24, 2018, 08:53 AM Feb 2018

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Jill Stein has lost about 1000 Twitter followers the past month

Coinciding with the purge of Russian bots.

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https://twittercounter.com/DrJillStein/friends

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Jill Stein has lost about 1000 Twitter followers the past month (Original Post) Upstate One Feb 2018 OP

that she still has 265K followers is what shocks me hlthe2b Feb 2018 #1

If you read the posts...a good number are Republicans...and some signed up during the campaign Demsrule86 Feb 2018 #3

Russian bots following the Russian princess Jill Stein...she would look so nice in orange... Demsrule86 Feb 2018 #2

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Funtatlaguy Feb 2018 #4

A Stein follower I knew ehrnst Feb 2018 #5

hlthe2b

(113,968 posts)

1. that she still has 265K followers is what shocks me

Reply to Upstate One (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:06 AM

Feb 2018

Demsrule86

(71,542 posts)

3. If you read the posts...a good number are Republicans...and some signed up during the campaign

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:08 AM

Feb 2018

and are not longer active...more bots?

Demsrule86

(71,542 posts)

2. Russian bots following the Russian princess Jill Stein...she would look so nice in orange...

Reply to Upstate One (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:07 AM

Feb 2018

Funtatlaguy

(11,878 posts)

4. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Reply to Upstate One (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:20 AM

Feb 2018

She was complicit in electing a Trump. Wittingly or unwittingly.

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)

5. A Stein follower I knew

Reply to Upstate One (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 06:57 PM

Feb 2018

pointed to all the Russian Bots that supported Stein with misinformation, and felt somehow exonerated Stein supporters of being propagators of the anti-Hillary propaganda.

"I'm waiting for an apology," they said.

I said that I'm waiting on an apology for being called a "Hilbot" and "Correct the Record Shill" when I fact checked the mindblowingly ridiculous Bot posts they shared about Hillary.

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