https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/30/trump-twitter-domestic-disinformation/Researchers say the online feedback loop between Trump, high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers is a danger to the election.
Trump had just 20 million Twitter followers on Inauguration Day in January 2017. Today, he averages more than 1,000 tweets a month, with nearly 17,000 retweets each, an unparalleled volume in the English-speaking world, according to researchers. That means Trump benefits from a powerful ecosystem that amplifies every post, and from Twitter’s own loose rules and algorithms that give an additional boost to messages based on the engagement they receive.
