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bearsfootball516

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4. Ever clicked on one of his tweets and looked at the replies?

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Tue May 22, 2018, 05:28 PM

May 2018

The first dozen are usually bots that are programmed to say stuff like "PRESIDENT TRUMP 2020" and "Everyone loves President Trump" and stuff like that, and they're programmed to reply to his tweets immediately after they're sent.

Then, the other bots immediately retweet them, which forces all of those replies to the top of the tweet thread, because Twitter's algorithm rewards tweets that have a lot of retweets and comments.

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TRUMP HAS 15 MILLION FAKE TWITTER FOLLOWERS [View all] Cattledog May 2018 OP

15 million russian bots sunonmars May 2018 #1

Putin calls it his "Fake President Package"....local channels extra dameatball May 2018 #2

Perhaps the few "bodies" in his inaugeration photos BigmanPigman May 2018 #3

Ever clicked on one of his tweets and looked at the replies? bearsfootball516 May 2018 #4

His Facebook page is pretty dodgy too GarColga May 2018 #12

Isn't 29% about the percentage of die hard trump troglodytes ? pangaia May 2018 #5

Consistent, isn't he. Fake from stem-to-stern, upside-down and sideways. calimary May 2018 #6

Everything about him is fake. smirkymonkey May 2018 #7

TRUMP IS A CON. Twitter needs to CLOSE ALL THE FAKE ACCOUNTS NOW !!!! trueblue2007 May 2018 #8

More or less the same for his Facebook Friends. no_hypocrisy May 2018 #9

Yeah...Russian fake people or bots. He's the biggest con man ever. nt Honeycombe8 May 2018 #10

Just another line from this administration apkhgp May 2018 #11

Why isnt twitter doing something about this? kimbutgar May 2018 #13

And there are undoubtedly some who neglected to change from following President Obama Rhiannon12866 May 2018 #14