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What do the Twitter accounts of the presidential candidates tell us?

   July 9, 2015

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If Twitter voted for the Presidential Primary, it would be Hillary Clinton (3.81 million) versus Donald Trump (3.11 million), according to website Spokeo.com.

The contest might be even closer, using twitteraudit.com – we find that a full 35% of Hillary’s followers are fake followers (based on Twitter Audit’s metrics – number of tweets, date of last tweet, ratio of followers to friends – but this may be a hold over from the last campaign and previous followers). On the Republican side, Chris Christie fares even worse with 57% of his followers being fake.

Other info gleamed from their twitter profiles:

Jeb Bush follows Pitbull

Martin O’Malley follows Ray Rice

Bernie Sanders follows Lewis Black

Rick Perry follows iwantcamgirls? Ooops…

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