Hillary is pulling ahead in the social media race..... (xpost from HRC)

[frylock]

Bernies people keep crowing about him leading..

Hillary has 4.22 million followers on her twitter feed....thats a pretty impressive lead
Her Instagram page is at 286000 follower and it leads too
With her primary facebook page she has 1332007 million followers....a second page has more.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110718734

Discuss.

[SouthernProgressive]

1. I have seen many Sanders supporters caim that Social Media is the most influential media.

Hillary is pretty strong in this area. And just about every other area. Sanders is strong in this area as well.

[frylock]

5. Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton’s fake followers

Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton and many other presidential hopefuls are haunted by fake followers on Twitter.

Almost half of Chris Christie’s followers on Twitter are fake. This makes him the presidential candidate with the highest number of fake followers, according to Vocativ.

Hillary Clinton comes in second, with 35 percent fake followers, while presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have as many as 90 percent real followers, and only 10 percent fake ones.

http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2015/07/02/chris-christie-and-hillary-clintons-fake-followers/

[SouthernProgressive]

6. What does a twenty percent difference in "fake flowers" tell me. lol.

Trump is neck and neck with Sanders on something else.

[Capt. Obvious]

13. ?

[LondonReign2]

21. Ground breaking hair styles?

[Scootaloo]

27. Overwhelming New York accents?

[John Poet]

16. 'Haunted'? They're not 'haunted' by fake followers---

fake followers are bought and paid for, most likely by the candidate's organizations themselves.
They don't just 'happen'.

[SonderWoman]

39. Bernie only has 400k twitter followers??

And probably a 1/3 are spambots. Hmm....

[jkbRN]

2. Quality over quantity

I believe that name recognition has a lot to do with the number of her followers. Not to mention conservatives follow her and bash her 24/7.

Bernie seems to have his account(s), and the people that follow him perpetuate his messages so that they reverberate through out all of social media.

[virtualobserver]

3. I hear that she is big in Baghdad

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038621/More-2-MILLION-Hillary-Clinton-s-Twitter-followers-fake-never-tweet.html

[roguevalley]

35. info from that article about her 'like' ability

Two different online audit tools say no more than 44 per cent of Hillary's 3.6 million Twitter fans are real people who participate in the platform

The newly minted presidential candidate is fending off accusations that her Facebook page is full of fake 'likes'

Her Facebook fan base includes more people from Baghdad, Iraq than any US city

When she was secretary of state, her agency paid $630,000 to bulk up its Facebook likes, but pledged to stop after she left


Her fraudiness goes to the bone.

[Purveyor]

4. Also Read: Hillary Clinton Dominates The Pack … In Fake Twitter Followers

When it comes to fake Twitter followers, Hillary Clinton is winning the presidential race by a landslide. Clinton has more fake followers and a higher ratio of bogus Twitter fans than any of the other main 2016 presidential contenders, a Vocativ analysis shows.

On the other end of the scale, the candidates with the lowest percentage of fake Twitter followers are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Contrary to what one might guess from his reputation for extravagant self-promotion, Trump’s 2.6 million Twitter followers are 90 percent real people. Only 311,388 were deemed fake by the analysis using the tool TwitterAudit.

Bernie Sanders was tied for the highest ratio of authentic followers—90 percent of his 300,000-plus followers are real people. Then comes Gov. Jeb Bush with 89% of his followers registering as real. On the bottom of the Twitter list is Clinton, with a whopping 35 percent of her 2.3 million Twitter followers coming up as fake.

TwitterAudit, a social media analysis tool, says on its website that it judges a Twitter account’s authenticity based on its number of tweets, the date of its last tweet and the ratio of its followers to friends. The fake Twitter accounts can be bots, which are accounts run by automated software programming. They can also be accounts created by real people but with an agenda of spreading political advertisements. But under both scenarios, they are certainly not a genuine measure of candidate popularity.

http://www.vocativ.com/usa/us-politics/hillary-clinton-has-more-fake-twitter-followers-than-other-candidates/

[bluedigger]

7. All I have is my personal anecdotal experience to go on.

Hillary doesn't exist on my FB.

Trump is a source of derision.

Bernie has some strong support.

I'm not sure how I would have self-selected my friends to exclude HRC supporters, but, whoever they are, we don't travel in the same circles.

[Fawke Em]

15. Are you friends with me?

Because that's exactly what my Facebook looks like, too.

[bluedigger]

17. It's not impossibum.

[BuelahWitch]

20. I "subscribe" to Bernie's main FB page

as well as two local oriented ones and "Women for Bernie." I don't go on Twitter much.

[reformist2]

8. I read somewhere they are mostly fake.

[reformist2]

9. Hillary has so much money she could probably pay thousands of people to go to her rallies

Why should fake followers be limited to the internet? :p

[DisgustipatedinCA]

10. Facebook is much, much larger than Twitter.

I wonder why it is that she has 4.2 million followers on the smaller of the two services, and 1.3 million followers on the larger of the services. Oh, right--a large percentage of her Twitter followers are fake.

http://www.vocativ.com/usa/us-politics/hillary-clinton-has-more-fake-twitter-followers-than-other-candidates/

[PoliticAverse]

11. Don't worry, Kim Kardashian still maintains a huge lead over both. n/t

[AtomicKitten]

12. Hillary is aggressively buying Facebook likes from Thailand, Mynamar, Bangladesh, etc.

As SOS, she bought $630,000 Facebook likes.

While Clinton was America’s top diplomat, her State Department was buying Facebook 'likes,’ according to an Associated Press report from last year. 'In 2013, the State Department, which has more than 400,000 likes and was recently most popular in Cairo, said it would stop buying Facebook fans after its inspector general criticized the agency for spending $630,000 to boost the numbers,’ the wire service reported. Clinton left the agency while the inspector general was investigating.

Now Candidate Clinton is aggressively buying Facebook likes from third world countries.

[hifiguy]

18. How incredibly pathetic is that?

[frylock]

22. Incredibly.

[sabrina 1]

24. How on earth do you buy likes on Twitter and FB? I don't even bother with the

tweets that ask you to follow them and then they will follow you. What is the point of following someone whose only purpose is to increase their number of followers, how boring?

[PoliticAverse]

28. You may find this article from Jan 2014 interesting...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/05/buy-facebook-likes_n_4544800.html

It includes the following tidbit:

In 2013, the State Department, which has more than 400,000 likes and was recently most popular in Cairo, said it would stop buying Facebook fans after its inspector general criticized the agency for spending $630,000 to boost the numbers.

[roguevalley]

36. she has 46000 followers inin Baghdad alone. A picture of an older woman

posing as a gardening granny for Hillary has this caption under it: ASTROTURF? A woman cast as a kindly, gardening grandma in Clinton's campaign launch video is actually a former abortion lobbyist who once helmed a campaign for Texas state Senator Wendy Davis

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038621/More-2-MILLION-Hillary-Clinton-s-Twitter-followers-fake-never-tweet.html#ixzz3lkdGUwTH

Faker, thy name is Hillary.

[reddread]

43. enough to sink her

in an honest election.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. Sec. Kerry stopped Sec Clinton's practice of buying facebook likes

for the US State department...........

State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook 'likes'

State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook "likes," prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was "buying fans" in social media, the agency's inspector general says.

The department's Bureau of International Information Programs spent the money to increase its "likes" count between 2011 and the beginning of 2013

http://gizmodo.com/a-state-department-bureau-spent-630-000-buying-faceboo-655295195

[hifiguy]

19. Good for Kerry.

And it sounds like someone owes the State Dept a nice chunk of change.

[frylock]

23. That's disgusting..

why the fuck would the State Dept even NEED Facebook likes?! I wonder how many of those 'Likes' have crossed over to 'Like' Hillary 2016, or whatever page see maintains for the primary, on FB?

[dorkzilla]

30. That’s what I don’t understand. Why does the State Department even need a fucking FB page?

You know, I never believed the RW trash about her, its her pro-TPP, pro-fracking, pro-Keystone BS (and a lot of other things) that bothered me about her. But something about this...I don’t know - - it just really authenticates her lack of authenticity. It’s bothersome and it WILL get thrown in her face *if* she makes it to the GE.

[whatchamacallit]

25. Wow!

What a racket...

[azmom]

29. What? She spent $630,000 of our

Money for likes? For likes?

Edit: I just read the first comment in the article and it read like mine.

Fuck it to hell, it's just hard to believe. What a fucking waste of the people's money.

[RufusTFirefly]

32. If the State Dept. could spend that much on "likes"

... just imagine what a well-funded candidate could do in an attempt to buy popularity on an influential political message board.

[frylock]

37. Food for thought.

[Zorra]

34. Utterly, tragically disingenuous. If one of my friends did something like that,

I would disavow them for not being trustworthy.

[djean111]

26. Reddit - social media

The sub-reddit for Bernie is amazingly well organized, there are 104,643 subscribers and 1793 online as of just now; the sub-reddit for Hillary has 652 subscribers, non currently online.

The reddit group raises money, is very well organized, there is a sub-reddit for each state, they have real grass-roots enthusiasm. Reddit discovered Bernie through some AMA's he did. They love his policies. They believe him on the issues. They don't hate Hillary; they just do not care about her, she is the old way personified, and that old way has done them no favors. Who do you think goes to get killed when Hillary boasts she will certainly have a "muscular" foreign policy?

The younger people do not even see the fancy ads. They don't care about them. They look things up for themselves. They will not do what the DNC wants them to do if Bernie is not the candidate. They see no point. That is on the DNC, and that has been years in the making.

Winning social media is not how many followers you can buy. That is laughable at best.

[Android3.14]

31. Something good for Bernie must be about to happen

The Tapioca Brigade is out in force this afternoon.

[frylock]

42. The Clinton campaign machine isn't spending all that money on polls for nothing..

the internals are probably pretty abysmal.

[Katashi_itto]

33. How many did she buy?

[rhett o rick]

38. Do you have a link for your statistics? nm

[frylock]

41. Nah, you'd have to ask the author of the original post from the HRC group for those..

I'd be happy to, but like many of us here on DU, I am unable to post there.

[rhett o rick]

44. LOL. Catch 22. I notice that they didn't post a link. LOL. But they are safe. No one there

would ask for proof.

[frylock]

45. That's why I felt it needed more eyes.

[rhett o rick]

46. I agree and thank you. nm

[Aerows]

40. Are they posts

that make fun of her?

[Scuba]

47. Hillary has all the popularity money can buy ...

[KoKo]

48. Yikes....! The Social Media Silent Majority!