Alyssa Milano: It's weird that Trump, with 54M followers, rarely gets over 20K retweets

[highplainsdem]

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It’s super weird to me that @realDonaldTrump has 54 MILLION followers and his tweets rarely get over 20 thousand retweets.

He’s screaming into the wind.

I bet this tweet gets more RT’s.

She was right - 51K retweets for her tweet so far.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Trump literally bought and paid for Twitter and F/B followers.

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Well, are most of those followers Trump haters or journalists just wanting to...

see what he's up to?

Or are Trumpons just too stupid to know how to re-tweet?

(Or maybe both?)

[efhmc]

8. I blocked him as soon as saw his first tweet.

However, I think many people just want to be "in" on his latest stupid, vindictive pronouncements.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. LOTS of them are anti-Trump.

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I just opened one of his recent tweets which listed 35 K re-tweets. Lots of anti trump ones.

What is more interesting is how many of his followers are bots. Many of us spend a few minutes reporting suspected bots.

[MariaCSR]

3. Russia.

[GusBob]

4. I'm not on Twitter so

But why does he need retweets? They are rebroadcast everywhere else on all media. I'm not on twitter and hear about them all

It seems to me folks might be sick and tired of his habits. It is tiresome

He also seems to repeat himself a lot. Why retweet old news?

[Takket]

5. She makes a great point....

Even at 30k retweets that Is 1 out of every 1800 followers retweeting him.

Compare to Milano’s tweet above which generated about 1 out of 60.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Betting 54 million of the fake followers would be only understanding Cryllic characters.

So it appears Shitler's only hold on his power, the magical Twitter machine, is fake!

And losing it's powers as it's fakery is exposed...not to mention soooo fucking boring.

[dalton99a]

9. Many were mass-produced in St. Petersburg

[Hekate]

20. No tariff war on those, either

[SWBTATTReg]

15. Really. And how do they measure this so called 54 million? Or for that matter, how ...

do they measure any of the numbers? I don't have a lot of confidence in twitter measurement numbers being that they can't seem to pinpoint very well when someone is sending a trashy tweet or the like. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't even have a network control center to monitor stuff (I don't have much confidence in twitter as a stand alone network...you keep hearing of problems and the like w/ this stuff).

[mythology]

24. The number of followers is easy

That's just a count. Now how many of those are actual people compared to bots and how many of the actual people are supporters compared to media or opponents is hard to measure.

[underpants]

10. The responses are heavily against him and are often hilarious

But reporting on those would be provided a full picture and we just can't have that.

[forgotmylogin]

11. Does she want everybody to re-tweet *everything*?

That would just be combinatorial explosion madness.

[SMC22307]

14. I'll take a stab -- no, she doesn't.

She's merely pointing out that the tweet-to-follower ratio is off -- way off.

[forgotmylogin]

21. True.

You'd think the bots would be programmed to do that.

[Squinch]

26. Do you think she wants everybody to re-tweet *everything*? If so, why do you think that?

[ffr]

12. That one tickles my funnybone.

[elmac]

13. The russian bots are way too busy

to respond to the useful idiots tweets.

[blue-wave]

16. Because the vast majority of his RT's are Russian bots!!

As are his followers

[Raine]

17. Lots of people don't tweet, I don't

anyway for those interested all the cable networks like CNN, MSNBC and Fox quote the tweets continually.

[GusBob]

30. DU, radio, Facebook, print, television broadcasts the tweets

Why bother retweeting?

The point is: everybody seems to hang on to every chirp

What is exactly what he wants

[yurbud]

18. In fairness, many of Trump's followers are barely literate and just getting used to their

opposable thumbs.

[yardwork]

22. I think that Trump has two kinds of supporters.

One group, as you say, doesn't tweet very much.

The other group that makes up a huge number of Trump's supporters is wealthy people with advanced degrees in business, law, etc. They're very pleased with their tax breaks and how well their investments are doing. Of course, they can't publicly agree with the vile, ignorant things that Trump tweets. So they're silent.

[yurbud]

25. I agree. I think that group is a bigger slice of the 1% than most people suspect...

which is why Democrats agree with him of defense spending, mass surveillance, and the like, and do inexplicable things like Schumer fast-tracking a bunch of Trump judicial appointees.

[yardwork]

29. I think that you completely misunderstood my post.

Trump's supporters are NOT Democrats. They are wealthy Republicans. Democrats don't agree with Trump on anything. Poll after poll shows this.

[yurbud]

31. Democratic VOTERS don't. Some big donors may agree with aspects of his tax & regulatory

policies though saying any policy is his like attributing a quote to a ventriloquist's dummy.

[TrogL]

23. Of course I have to retweet this

[flotsam]

27. Nope

They yell "Down Clown!"...

[Wellstone ruled]

28. Ivan and Boris Bots?

[Gothmog]

32. Many of trump's followers are russian bots

[Cha]

33. 74,000ish now.. + mine!

[BumRushDaShow]

34. She's right!!!! And to underscore, our last REAL President

gets tens of thousands of retweets of even his "every day" types of tweets - like the one congratulating the Hawai'ian Little League team of winning the championship just last week!

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TEXT

Barack Obama
✔
@BarackObama

Congratulations to Hawaii for winning the Little League World Series! You make America very proud. 🤙🏾
Little League
✔
@LittleLeague

CHAMPS! 🤙🇺🇸#LLWS
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5:40 PM - Aug 26, 2018

373K
37.7K people are talking about this

(33,891 Retweets
373,011 Likes)

But an even bigger case in point - compare the 2 tweeted statements regarding John McCain -

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TEXT

Donald J. Trump
?Verified account @realDonaldTrump

My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. Our hearts and prayers are with you!
5:44 PM - 25 Aug 2018

39,311 Retweets
219,877 Likes


88,833 replies 39,311 retweets 219,877 likes


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Barack Obama
?Verified account @BarackObama

Our statement on the passing of Senator John McCain:
6:09 PM - 25 Aug 2018


188,088 Retweets
874,943 Likes

12,836 replies 188,088 retweets 874,943 likes

The current had 39K retweets and the latter had 188K retweets!