26 Million Followers - usually only 120K or so likes on posts

[titaniumsalute]

Donald Trump has over 26 million Twitter followers. But on his best Tweets he only receives around 100k to maybe 120k in likes. We're talking about 0.4% or so of total followers. Does't that seem very low to you all?

[marybourg]

1. Sure. JFK and FDR got much more

"likes". But Bush got about the same. Sad.

[kentuck]

2. I noticed that!

Yesterday, I think 91,000 likes was his top.

[tblue37]

3. A lot of Twitter followers are fake. Apparently people can puff up their

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numbers in several ways--including by paying for nonexistent followers.

[titaniumsalute]

7. I went to a Twitter Audit site

It says nearly 6 million Trump twitter followers are fake. LOL.

Still 19 million are real.

[tblue37]

22. I checked out that Twitter audit site. Its accuracy is questionable.

I don't actually "use" Twitter. I have a grand total of 10 tweets over all the years I have had an account, and just 4 followers. I know all of my followers personally, but the audit site says 1 of them is fake. I know for a fact she is not.

[alfredo]

4. Many just lurk.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Yep. Or...

They follow him so they can tweet back, or to tweet him unflattering pictures of himself.

[alfredo]

12. I give him hell.

[Quixote1818]

5. Obama has 85 million followers and generally gets around 225,000 likes. nt

[titaniumsalute]

8. I guess I'm just surprised

So many people follow someone once I guess and then don't bother looking/liking stuff again int he future.

[LeftInTX]

11. I think retweeting is a form of liking

[Denzil_DC]

17. With that many followers, I guess that those who do follow him

figure that if folks in their Twitterverse were that interested in what he's tweeted, they'd already have read it (similar might apply to Clinton and Obama), so there's not much point in retweeting. Plus, if it's a doozie, the media coverage will be substantial and folks will see it and the aftermath anyway.

What is noticeable is that the vast proportion of folks who reply to him aren't being supportive, to say the least. It's generally wall-to-wall roasting, with just a few severely outnumbered deplorables quickly losing the will to live.

I didn't look closely enough at his feed during the run-up to the election to know whether things were different then, but bots may have been a significant factor at that point.

Add to all this that a fair number of his followers are fake, according to Twitter Audit:

Twitter Audit Report
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
16,606,106 Real
6,110,865 Fake
Audit score 73%

https://www.twitteraudit.com/realdonaldtrump

(For context, both Obama and Hillary score 79% - higher is better.)

[titaniumsalute]

18. Yes the responses are easily 9 out of 10 not in his favor.

[Denzil_DC]

19. And often extremely funny! n/t

[titaniumsalute]

20. Oh shoot the memes are out of control funny

[Mz Pip]

9. I follow Trump

Not because I support him but because I want to keep up with his idiot tweets.

I suspect a lot of his followers are like me.

[Lucinda]

14. Yep me too. I cringe a little having some people in my list of who I follow, but

I want to keep up with what they are spewing.

[LeftInTX]

10. I follow him

I like to watch his crazy tweets

[Lucinda]

13. It's telling. Both the Obamas, and Hillary, have much higher numbers on average. It matters because

twitter really is a snapshot of those who actively engage online. It appears that pre-election day, a lot of pro Trump support was actually chatbots, and not actually people responding to posts. Hillary and the Obama's are still engaged with supporters and their numbers remain high. Trump's bots dropped off, and his numbers reflect it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/technology/automated-pro-trump-bots-overwhelmed-pro-clinton-messages-researchers-say.html?_r=0

[Sienna86]

15. I follow him so I get head's up to the layer of craziness.

[JNelson6563]

16. I think many who hate him follow too.

[titaniumsalute]

24. Well I do

[Vinca]

21. It's the equivalent of ogling a car crash and bodies in the road as you drive by.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Sure. I mean, if you're on twitter, you kind of HAVE to follow the guy.

Not because you're a supporter, but I mean.. think what you could miss.