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

Devil's Advocate:

Is it possible that Trump supporters are, demographically, less likely to be active Twitter users? Like, people who sign up and create accounts just so they can follow him?

Obviously there are a ton of actual bots and fake accounts following him as well, but I wonder if Trump might also have a higher number of inactive but "legitimate" followers than the average high-profile Twitter account.

well it would be cool to know what happens inside trump's head. I mean I'm from germany and even school kids learn at least something about the nato. (especially their parts about how the system works). But somehow trump does not understand it. he thinks that the money is the most important thing, however the nato only set a goal like 1 or 2 years ago which should preferable spend starting in 2024 (not, now of course). and now he blames every country who didn't reached the goal of 2024? or does he thinks that every country just somehow needs to pay the same amount that the usa uses for their military? or what does he think? i mean yeah every political person does lie. but most of them don't lie upfront or show others that they don't have an idea. but trump looks just silly from the outside.

I also don't understand what the labour or partners of trump are thinking, it does not look like they can do anything useful for their country in the next 4 years.

well at least I can somewhat why people voted in favor of him. I mean with voting you can express yourself, normally. however if you can only vote between sodom and gomorra you can only express that you are more unhappy with sodom... that doesn't mean you are happy with gomorra, tough.

Yes, that may be true but who cares. If you follow the news in any way you will read his twits. This is one case where even one follower means the whole world reads his message.

He doesn't even need twitter. He could just write a microblog on whitehouse.gov and that would be enough.

This is not good. But you have to know what the standard ratio is, and how things breaks down demographically, to know how bad it really is.

How about other popular/celebrity accounts? Do they show the same thing? Bet they do.

Trump rarely hits the 100k likes these days. I guess his popularity is waning.