Twitter culls fake followers, Democrats hardest hit

American Thinker: Twitter announced it would be culling the platform’s fake followers.  It makes good business sense to do this, because fake followers on an individual account distort the influence ratings for advertisers, meaning that accounts full of fakes are a money-losing proposition for Twitter’s real, paying customers.  If an account has fake followers, it looks more influential than it really is.

Well, guess what: there is an extraordinarily high number of Democrats, the kind who draw lots of media hype, with puffed up “it” status, loaded with fake followers.  I checked with this site called TwitterAudit here.  Some of these accounts, as both Twitter and the tech site Scrunch note, actually buy these fake followers to make their Twitter personas (or personae) look more important.  By contrast, few Republicans show any such signs of this kind of manipulation.

What does this say about these Democrats’ real influence?  Or, for that matter, their ethics?  Well, take a look at some of the prominent ones.

Let’s start with one of my favorites, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democratic Party “it” girl if there ever was one, and one with a long record of fakery on other matters, such as falsifying confessions for prosecutors, or this recent phony claim of racism here.  Here’s what TwitterAudit finds about her account: