Some of Donald Trump’s support on Twitter comes from accounts with zero followers who tweet identical messages and who have been part of social media marketing campaigns in the past.
Patrick Ruffini, a conservative activist and anti-Trump supporter, noticed that several hundred accounts have used word-for-word language to urge voters to opt out of Ted Cruz robocalls or emails and file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission.
Some of the accounts also send advertisements for all manner of web-based entities designed to show up in trending topics and search results for various topics.
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These accounts, Ruffini discovered, have a history of tweeting the same messages:
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This group also collectively retweeted @DanScavino 13,000 times.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 8, 2016
Dan Scavino is the director of social media for the Trump campaign.
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- Discussion
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Sleazy tactics https://t.co/dW3sb34zqg
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 8, 2016
Well, well, it appears that all instances of that Cruz FCC tweet that I called out have been scrubbed from the Internet.
— 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
I read somewhere that Drumpf operatives were running 500,000 fake twitter feeds selling the Kool-Aid.
That’s a LOT of twitterraging.
I suspect many of the pro-Trump Facebook accounts that post drivel on Ted Cruz’s Facebook page are fake.
Heck, many of the Trumpbot accounts on FR are probably fake too. FR may have sold a bunch of inactive FR accounts to Trump.
Well, one can hope it enables jr to survive.
https://t.co/WKLOMXDmGI pic.twitter.com/fx9GhfeKqT
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 9, 2016
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