Sunday, June 22, 2014

How some Russian Trolls get magically large numbers of followers

@RobPulseNews did some brilliant research after suspected Russian Troll Bryan MacDonald @27KHV (twitter ID 8628872) from Ireland with some 21.000 followers!
 For 7 days in a row he gained 3000 followers a day.
The defense of Bryan sounded like this:


Sure. But Paula Slier, anchor host of Russia Today, who is daily on tv only has 12.500 followers:



His next reply was:


Yet a survey of Rob shows this:
The next defense of Bryan:


My answer was:


This is how you can do it:


Or the Russian Propaganda Troll Network will do it for you.


Bryan @27KHV... YOU ARE BUSTED!


Dear reader... next time you meet a proRussian troll with an impressively large nr of followers: IGNORE THEM.
If they irritate you: BAN THEM.


UPDATE
It is come to the attention of Twitter that @27KHV has so many fake accounts. They started removing them!!! Look what is happening to his followers:



Here is another one @maxseddon:





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Also see: My public apologies to @BradCabana for calling him a Russian troll

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