This morning, I retweeted an article on the Trump-Russia connections

[NewJeffCT]

and, quickly afterwards, I picked up four Twitter followers with .RU email addresses. Coincidence? I think not.

[cilla4progress]

1. Samantha Bee's show last night

Showed some Russian disrupters. Yikes!

[progressoid]

6. That's the first thing that came to my mind too!

[Avalux]

2. Feels ominous to me. Why is the first one not checked and the others are? n/t

[NewJeffCT]

3. That was my email inbox

I had highlighted three of them and marked as unread, and then the 4th email came in.

[Avalux]

5. Got it.

I'm not too savvy about this sort of thing but it appears communications are being monitored by Russian operatives.

[dalton99]

4. There is an army of Russian trolls working full-time on this election

and other elections in Western Europe.

[NewJeffCT]

7. the new "war"

is a cyber one.

[cilla4progress]

8. Fascism is definitely on the rise

(again) around the world!

[Dem2]

9. Not all Russians are Putin. Pussy Riot for instance

I wouldn't put too much stock in this unless you know these are unsavory characters.

[NewJeffCT]

10. I have no clue

I'll have to check my twitter feed later to see if it's swamped with tweets in Russian or similar.

who knows, it could be a bunch of mail order brides or porn sites as well. Those can happen online.

[DLCWIdem]

11. The sheer number of the RUSSIAN tweets is the alarming thing

Yes not all Russians are Putin followers but the sheer number which ganged up on his site is ominous. Think, if they were non Putin Russians they wouldn't come in such a number all at once.

[sarae]

12. That's a little creepy.

I retweeted a Trump-Russia article yesterday and I also picked up a few followers.

I just went back and looked at them again. One of them definitely looks like a bot. She has what is surely a fake profile pic (an airbrushed model photo), her last name is a common American name (except that it's misspelled) and she tweets out strangely random things – from yoga articles to celebrity updates to ads for useless infomercial gadgets.

ETA: the other follower I picked up is called "Illuminati Exposed" and their profile statement says "Awareness of the illuminati /NWO/ Global bankers. Spreading the truth of what happening to the human race".

[Blue_Adept]

13. It's almost like people don't understand how the internet works