Bernie Sanders has fewer ‘fake’ Twitter followers than Clinton or Trump: analysis
Bernie Sanders has fewer fake Twitter followers than Clinton or Trump: analysis
Dylan Stableford
Yahoo! Politics
Despite having about 3.7 million fewer Twitter followers than Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had the most retweeted tweets among any of the Democratic candidates during this weeks presidential debate.
But there is, perhaps, another for Sanders popularity on Twitter: He has the least bots and troll Twitter followers among any major candidate running for the White House.
According to Vocativ, which used a Twitter audit tool to analyze the verified accounts of the 12 most-followed 2016 hopefuls, 89 percent of Sanders 750,000 followers are actual users, while just 59 percent of Clintons 4.49 million are authentic. Second to the secretary of state in terms of Twitter bots and trolls? That would be Donald Trump: Just 61 percent of the Republican frontunners 4.59 million Twitter followers are actual users, Vocativ said.