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(45,003 posts)Doesn't Twitter realize that they've created a cesspool? Why don't they do anything?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Profits are profits, whether in Dollars or Roubles.
collecting money hand over fist
WA-03 Democrat
(3,050 posts)Are twitter bots. Another page from Putins famous book called So One Wants to Be More than Mafia Boss-What to Do?
Drumph conflates noise for support because social media is the new Bulshit Moutain. Please climb at your own risk.
Get Out The Vote! Every spot - Vote for the Democratic Party!
lark
(23,118 posts)Same evil politics and practices. Come on Twitter, why was this allowed, it's clearly faked so why not pull them all down? Grrr.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)May it backfire bigly on them asap.
Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Is 11AM on the troll farms of St. Petersburg, Russia. Prime tweeting time for them, I would imagine.
(St. Petersburg is 7 hours ahead of EST, and most of Texas is 2 hours behind EST, I believe)
efhmc
(14,731 posts)CDT
so, 2AM in most of Texas is 10AM in St. Petersburg, Russia, which is where I believe the most infamous troll farm is located.
efhmc
(14,731 posts)make this tweet effective or just google the time in Texas.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)1) Allied trolls in Western Europe (6-7 hours ahead of Texas ) and on the East Coast of the US (1-2 hours ahead, mostly loners, not an organized effort) will see the pro Cruz tweets and like/retweet them over the next few hours. They will in turn get retweeted again by others in Russia and Europe.
2) Texans start waking up for work and school a little while after that (5/6/7 AM Texas Time) , check their Twitter accounts and see that Ted Cruz is a top trending local topic on twitter. They check and see all these people supporting him, a pro Cruz/anti O'Rourke message appealing to the patriotism of Texans.
It does not take a huge number of tweets to become a trending topic for several hours, especially at a local level. (Even in a state as big as Texas)
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)Den vee go on break. Wodka!
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Stallion
(6,476 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,191 posts)They are scared shitless. I'm not saying tactics like these don't work. A few will believe the tweets. Democrats must reach every one of them.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Remember how the pilgrims left England in search of a country where they could sing Our Star-Spangled Banner for Thanksgiving Day football games?
Remember how George III forbid Americans to sing Our Star-Spangled Banner at football games, and an outpouring of patriotic outrage led to the American Revolution?
Remember how we fought a great civil war over this issue?
ProfessorGAC
(65,078 posts)And no, i don't remember those things either. Just like everyone else here. In the red parts of Texas, i'm not so sure though.
Marcuse
(7,488 posts)Fla Dem
(23,692 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)various versions of it all over the state since beto said what he did.
not only that, but like a lot of russian trolling, this particular issue piggybacks 2 years of attacks on kaepernick and kneeling athletes calling them unpatriotic
limbaugh just repeated it earlier this week
that is why the soc media troll hunters would save a lot of money monitoring talk radio , where a lot if the alt reality starts because it's the only medium that can do the kind of repetition needed
which is why trump guys studied talk radio in 2014
ffr
(22,670 posts)Яussian and/or Chinese bots. Hey Conseяvative rubes, here's your juicy talking point for the day to reinforce your support for unpopular Ted Cяuz.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)to be a reliable source for anything?
greyl
(22,990 posts)It's a medium, not a source.
DFW
(54,410 posts)Don't those stupid Russians know that St. Petersburg is not in Texas, but in Russia?
Oh, sorry. Of course the Russians know that. It's the Texas Republicans that do not.
Cha
(297,323 posts)programmed Idiots.