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L. Coyote

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6. Half the 15 million aren't Trump followers, they're Twitter users who like stupid tweets.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 1, 2017, 08:37 PM

Jun 2017

Lots of people follow politicians to post comments on their tweets asap, or just to be informed of the stupid shit they post. Followers on Twitter aren't a count of supporters.

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