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Patrick Ruffini: The Truth about Trump’s Twitter Trolls
Screenshot of @YugeMilo from March 1. S/he has since changed to @WDFx2EU
Patrick Ruffini, a founding partner and Chairman of D.C.-based political media firm Engage, LLC, has been doing some heavy-duty tweeting about “Trumpbots” that he claims have been working in unison to slander republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz, while promoting his opponent presidential candidate Donald Trump.
While it has been exposed at TrevorLoudon.com that self-proclaimed pro-Trump “liberals” are heavily active on social media, and that some of these operatives have made up fake stories to slander Ted Cruz, (see here, and here), Ruffini has been able to uncover metrics about what he refers to as “Trumpbots.”
It should be noted that many of the fake pro-Trump and anti-Cruz “news” stories being spread originate from outside the United States, particularly Macedonia.
Looks like @PatrickRuffini has outed Trump’s scam social media House of Cards. Follow him for the info.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) April 8, 2016
Trump’s twitter AstroTurf is only being outed now. DC political reporters too busy RTing each other to investigate https://t.co/ms6cHyrHuf
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) April 8, 2016
Here are some of Patrick Ruffini’s revealing tweets:
People with 0 Twitter followers seem very interested in filing complaints against Ted Cruz. pic.twitter.com/FZBVVWC36V
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
Same Twitter users concerned about Cruz robocalls also simultaneously tweeted 17 Marketing Tips for B2B Websites. pic.twitter.com/CY0QZL4vJ2
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
465 Twitter users collectively urged people to complain to the FCC about Cruz robocalls.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
These “users” have collectively generated 1.786M tweets over the last 30 days.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
These 465 accounts generated 411K tweets about Trump over the last 30 days.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
This group also collectively retweeted @DanScavino 13,000 times.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
But they’re not just interested in Trump, but in a wide range of topics. pic.twitter.com/G0f04ibJVQ
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
They also take an intense interest in “fashion beauty news” pic.twitter.com/W3HySOF1Tf
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
It appears that none of this group of people (who have tweeted about Trump almost 1,000 times in the last month on avg.) actually follow him
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
Most commonly followed accounts by the most obviously fake Trumpbots are @iEuCardoso and @SudoOfficial
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
TrumpBot tweets I collected last night now disappeared. Also includes likely bot accounts. https://t.co/bPIwQYu937
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
Original tweet scrubbed and it seems like all who tweeted it on their own either deleted or had account suspended.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
Daily Caller has captured the disappeared tweets. Incredibly dumb of them to try and cover it up. https://t.co/JRtHMD3jjP
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
Fwiw some accounts that are tweeting anti-Cruz spam also tweeting porn at me
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
One cannot help but wonder what percentage of Trump trolls are Trumpbots, paid liberal operatives versus genuine Trump supporters. This author cannot help but think of the Alinsky’s rule “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
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Source: http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/04/patrick-ruffini-truth-about-trumps-twitter-trolls/
