That people use social media to express their opinions isn’t surprising. And, like Robin, the majority of political bots on Twitter are avid liberal- and media-bashing Trump supporters. I know that I live in an online “filter bubble.” Still, I was briefly stunned to think that I could be that out of touch.īut it turns out that my disconnect may not be from other citizens across the political spectrum, but rather from the estimated 48 million Twitter bots amplifying the noise of social media. The Commander-in-Chief’s Teflon coating had nary a scratch. I was even more shocked to see that both the Republican Party and its leader appeared to be unscathed by their initial failure to repeal and replace “Obamacare.” A few weeks later, my assumptions were violated again when Comey’s firing caused no dip in Trump’s approval in the Twitterverse. To my surprise, I found that good feelings about the president and antipathy towards the Democrats both spiked the day after Rachel Maddow broadcast her ho-hum, barely newsworthy scoop about Trump’s 2005 tax return. I discovered “Robin” in the course of using social media listening technology to assess if and how public sentiment regarding President Trump, the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party was changing during the first 100 days of the new administration. But they do less useful tasks as well, such as when they serve small and usually extreme political groups by liking or retweeting posts to inflate and falsify measures of public opinion. They are often used to support sales, news, or customer support organizations by giving you real-time weather updates, sports scores, or even fashion tips. She’s a bot.īots are software applications that perform repeatable, automated tasks. That’s because, behind the profile, Robin is not a real human being. Robin only retweets she can’t create original content. Actually, retweets - videos celebrating veterans, mocking whiny college art students, condemning Ann Coulter for having expressed a wee bit of disapproval about her dear leader, and of course, graphics and slogans excoriating the liberal media. Robin follows 4,800 other Twitter users, is followed by almost 3,500, and has made a stunning 65.2 thousand tweets to date. NRA /Pray For The Men in Blue /I got your six /All gave some, Some gave All /111%/Till They All Come Home.” Below it, her mottos and favorite causes: “There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. In her Twitter profile photograph, she peeks up from beneath a blue Yankees trucker’s hat, her grin a pleasing mix of sassy and seductive, her heavily mascaraed eyes green and wide. Facebook Email President Donald Trump's tweeter feed is photographed on a computer screen in Washington, Monday.
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