Here's the real data on Trump's Twitter followers (who are a bunch of eggs)
According to President Donald Trump, data and Twitter are two powerful tools in the fight against "FAKE NEWS media."
And so: We decided to take a look at the data behind Trump's Twitter following, to find out just how powerful these tools really are for him.
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With the help of SocialRank, a software for identifying audiences on Twitter and Instagram, here's just some of what we know:
Trump has 24.1 million Twitter followers on his personal account @realDonaldTrump. That's quite a lot, although he's nowhere near first place: Katy Perry has more than 95.7 million followers, Justin Bieber has more than 91.6 million, and Barack Obama has more than 84.2 million.
But a closer look at the 24.1 million people who chose to follow Trump on Twitter show something interesting: More than 5 million accounts have egg avatars, meaning they haven't changed their picture since joining Twitter. That's 20 percent of his following.
CARD ID: 161967
Comparatively:
Obama's old account @POTUS44 had 2.5 million eggs out of 15 million followers (17 percent)
...and Hillary Clinton's @HillaryClinton has 2.1 million out of 13 million (16 percent).
In conclusion, Trump wins for most number of eggs and highest ratio.
Also:
4,785,901 of Trump's followers have never actually tweeted, themselves
Since Trump's been in office, only 6,478,764 of his 24.1 million followers have tweeted.
For those followers who do tweet:
488,172 accounts have used the hashtag #MAGA (Make America Great Again)
...and 75,291 accounts have used the hashtag #TheBachelor.
Out of his 24.1 million followers:
118,629 live in New York City
518,603 live in California
148,160 live in Mexico
and 26,535 live in Russia.
Of those international accounts, an estimated 223,729 accounts have tweeted in Russian, and 1,125,261 have tweeted in Spanish.
Looking at the devices, more than 98,354 tweet from a Blackberry phone, while 7,742,358 tweet on iOS.
Also, about 167,446 accounts have used the frog emoji—a hallmark of alt-right Twitter, or just a fascinating mass of frog emoji fetishists. Could go either way.
Topics X/Twitter Donald Trump Politics
Kerry Flynn is a business reporter for Mashable covering the tech industry. She previously reported on social media companies, mobile apps and startups for International Business Times. She has also written for The Huffington Post, Forbes and Money magazine. Kerry studied environmental science and economics at Harvard College, where she led The Harvard Crimson's metro news and design teams and played mellophone in the Band. When not listening to startup pitches, she runs half-marathons, plays with puppies and pretends to like craft beer.
