More and more tweets with people complaining about unsolicited texts from Trump campaign

[highplainsdem]

Politico did an article a little over a week ago about the Trump campaign planning on using text messaging to get around what they see as a bias on social media platforms:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/24/trump-2020-reelection-text-messaging-933907

But judging by the tweets I'm seeing, a lot of people who are NOT Trump supporters and did not give the campaign their contact info are getting texts inviting them to rallies and telling them to vote for Trump.

[dalton99a]

1. Yep, they've been collecting cellphone numbers like mad

[MontanaMama]

2. I would be livid

if that orange a-hole had my phone number. Can you imagine??? I was incredibly relieved that I did not even receive the Presidential Alert. Neither did anybody in my family nor my friends got it either. I wonder if the Dotard can be blocked?

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Makes me wonder if the same Database that was used for the nationwide emergency broadcast

was "borrowed" by the Trump administration to send political campaign text messages. I wouldn't put it past them.

Another item for House Democrats to investigate.

[MineralMan]

4. That seems doubtful, actually.

More likely, they're using the usual process of dialing through all the numbers for individual three-digit cellular prefixes. My cell phone number is 295-nnnn in my area code.

A computer can dial all 10,000 possible combinations and send texts to them in no time through a VOIP connection.

It's a no-brainer, really.

[secondwind]

5. Both of us have received unwanted Trump texts on our cell phones... grr