Almost half of Trump’s Twitter followers are fake accounts
Most savvy Twitter users know that you can always spring for more followers if your dank memes just aren’t cutting it. A few hundred dollars can net you hundreds to thousands of new adherents to your live-tweeting philosophy, though they’re generally just fake accounts that will never really love you or your hilarious interactions with brands. Some folks can live with that, like comedian Joe Mande, who owns up to that fact in his Twitter bio. But Mande isn’t the only user who’s hip to this platform-building cheat; apparently, there’s a chance Donald Trump—or, at the very least, whoever manages his account—recently caught on to this way of goosing his stats.