Judge Roy Moore is a big deal in Alabama — and also, apparently, in Russia. A swarm of Russian Twitter bots has suddenly followed the Republican front-runner in the special Alabama senate race, helping to increase his social media audience from about 27,000 followers on Friday to 47,000 on Monday.
But don’t call him Russian Roy just yet. The Moore campaign doesn’t understand the candidate’s sudden Soviet popularity and they’ve asked Twitter to investigate. “We had absolutely nothing to do with this,” Moore spokesman, Drew Messer, told the Montgomery Advertiser. “We’ve never purchased followers or dummy ads on Twitter.”
Another aide told me the same, stating that “our social guys worked hard to build an authentic following.” And while it’s difficult to explain why Moore is suddenly big in the former USSR, there’s no denying his popularity in Alabama. The base that loves Moore will follow, will like, and will retweet everything he puts out online.
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Roy Moore campaign doesn't know why Russian Twitter bots are following him https://t.co/WxAVByd7G2 by @PhilipWegmann pic.twitter.com/J2NNRRISOm
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 16, 2017
On Friday, @MooreSenate had 27K followers. Today he has 47K followers. The vast majority of his new followers look like this: pic.twitter.com/Fi6XxgERMi
— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) October 16, 2017
Hey Michael…Roy Moore just now picked up 30K followers, and they all look like this. Know anyone in the media? pic.twitter.com/Zdao9F4BMs
— csd (@csd) October 16, 2017
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