Donald Trump's "Yuuuge" Twitter Following Has A LOT Of Fake/Inactive Accounts

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Donald Trump and his team love to boast about his "yuuuge" social media following. Especially on Twitter.

But an analysis by SocialRank shows Trump's following might have a "yuuuge" percentage of fake followers.

According to SocialRank:

• 10.2 million Trump followers (25.5%)  as of Oct. 10  have yet to share any content on Twitter

• 18.9 million of his followers have not shared content in more than a year

• more than 300,000 accounts following @realDonaldTrump only follow his account

• 13.7 million accounts (33%) have yet to set a profile photo ("egg accounts") and rarely tweet - totally an indication of a fake follower

• 46% of the accounts haven’t tweeted in the past year

• 66% of the accounts haven’t tweeted in the past 90 days

• 74% of the accounts have fewer than 50 followers

Also suspicious - a huge number of Trump's followers created their accounts after he announced his candidacy for president in June 2015:

• 56.7% of Trump’s followers, as of Oct. 9, created their accounts after Trump announced he was running for president

• 37.7% of the accounts were created after he was elected in November 2016

Noteworthy - only 6.7 % of Hillary Clinton‘s 19.2 million followers are inactive.

(source)