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634-5789

(4,175 posts)
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 06:01 AM Nov 2020

Trump Is Fading Away As He Has Lost Twitter Followers For 12 Straight Days

The numbers from FactBase show that Trump has lost anywhere between over 800 and over 20,000 followers a day over the past 12 days.

As Trump has gotten crazier with the conspiracy theories, some of his Twitter followers have started to head for the exits. Hundreds of thousands of Twitter users are tired of reading Trump’s rants about election fraud conspiracies that do not exist.



https://www.politicususa.com/2020/11/29/trump-decline-twitter.html

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Trump Is Fading Away As He Has Lost Twitter Followers For 12 Straight Days (Original Post) 634-5789 Nov 2020 OP
A lot of them were probably fake troll farm accounts and only there Tanuki Nov 2020 #1
+1 DeminPennswoods Nov 2020 #13
Jaysus.. he's even too much for Cha Nov 2020 #2
the bots fall away MFM008 Nov 2020 #3
It would be better if it was just twitter deleting bot accounts from the ranks! Brainfodder Nov 2020 #4
I'm guessing many of them might be russian and other foreign trolls that were trying to influence JI7 Nov 2020 #5
There was a large push Takket Nov 2020 #6
Some bots, some cult . .. Iliyah Nov 2020 #7
Meet the new bot, same as the old bot. n/t John1956PA Nov 2020 #11
A slow miserable fade liberal N proud Nov 2020 #8
#SAD #LOSER Grokenstein Nov 2020 #9
Trump's whole career was "fake news" and hype Fyrefox Nov 2020 #10
We have 15 followers, soon it will go to down to zero..... AZ8theist Nov 2020 #12
Maybe it was the thought of him wearing diapers that brought that stinker off his pedestal!... Illumination Nov 2020 #14
I want another debate twodogsbarking Nov 2020 #15
Must be driving him nuts to see those numbers go down day by day by day.... FM123 Nov 2020 #16
They picked him because he was "different"... N_E_1 for Tennis Nov 2020 #17
Per that link, he has lost over 125k total TheRickles Nov 2020 #18
80 million is the number I hear thrown around most often. n/t Laelth Nov 2020 #22
then there are the ones that died or are dying from covid NRaleighLiberal Nov 2020 #19
Except on DU, where every tweet gets instant undying attention, TU - Trump Underground lets call it Baclava Nov 2020 #20
Many of those are Democrats who were following him for the LULZ. MineralMan Nov 2020 #21
Sir Walter Scott or Willard Scott-whatever Dread Pirate Roberts Nov 2020 #23
To hell with him and his miserable enablers Blue Owl Nov 2020 #24

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
1. A lot of them were probably fake troll farm accounts and only there
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 06:09 AM
Nov 2020

to try to influence the outcome of the election.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
4. It would be better if it was just twitter deleting bot accounts from the ranks!
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 06:18 AM
Nov 2020

Or the whole site going kaput, I wouldn't miss it.

Same for Fakebook.





JI7

(89,247 posts)
5. I'm guessing many of them might be russian and other foreign trolls that were trying to influence
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 06:25 AM
Nov 2020

the election .

Takket

(21,562 posts)
6. There was a large push
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 06:29 AM
Nov 2020

About a week ago for legit people just following him to see what crazy shit he says to unfollow him. I think that had an effect. Also twitter routinely sweeps for bots/troll accounts that from my memory I gave read make up about 50% of his followers. Russia creates the bots to boost his follower counts. So when twitter locates and eliminates them in batches his count drops quickly.

Fyrefox

(300 posts)
10. Trump's whole career was "fake news" and hype
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 07:37 AM
Nov 2020

Trump has become what he most despises...a loser! To the narcissistic personality, being defeated, ignored, and out of control of others is absolutely intolerable. Trump richly deserves his fate of rejection, increasing irrelevancy, and the condemnation of history.

AZ8theist

(5,456 posts)
12. We have 15 followers, soon it will go to down to zero.....
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 07:56 AM
Nov 2020

The heat of the summer will cause the twitter to disappear.....Like magic!!

If we didn't test so much, there wouldn't be as many twitter followers...

 

Illumination

(2,458 posts)
14. Maybe it was the thought of him wearing diapers that brought that stinker off his pedestal!...
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 08:15 AM
Nov 2020

..... ..... ..... .....

twodogsbarking

(9,733 posts)
15. I want another debate
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 08:16 AM
Nov 2020

Trump and Major. They can bark at each other and if Trump gets out of line then Major can shut him up.

FM123

(10,053 posts)
16. Must be driving him nuts to see those numbers go down day by day by day....
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 08:25 AM
Nov 2020

He attaches his self-worth to numbers like that the same way he does with tv ratings. His ego can't take being irrelevant.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,721 posts)
17. They picked him because he was "different"...
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 08:30 AM
Nov 2020

His supporters were tired of the same old, same old stuff.

Now all he is the same old stuff, spouting the same old stuff. BORING.

TheRickles

(2,057 posts)
18. Per that link, he has lost over 125k total
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 09:08 AM
Nov 2020

and Biden has gained over 1M. That sounds great, but the link doesn't say what their baseline numbers were. So perhaps this is just a tiny blip for Trump. For example, it'd be less than 1% if he has 15M followers. Does anyone know the number of Twitter followers each actually has?

A change of less than 1% might qualify for a recount.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)
19. then there are the ones that died or are dying from covid
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 09:09 AM
Nov 2020

because "it is a hoax" or " don't tell me to wear a mask"

 

Baclava

(12,047 posts)
20. Except on DU, where every tweet gets instant undying attention, TU - Trump Underground lets call it
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 10:12 AM
Nov 2020

MineralMan

(146,287 posts)
21. Many of those are Democrats who were following him for the LULZ.
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 10:42 AM
Nov 2020

Now that he has lost the election, there's little point in continuing. They were never his supporters.

Dread Pirate Roberts

(1,896 posts)
23. Sir Walter Scott or Willard Scott-whatever
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 11:54 AM
Nov 2020
“The wretch, concentrated all in self ,Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.”
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