Remember back in 2008 when people were attributing Barack Obama's election to how great he was at social media, and it seemed like the internet and social media was the future of politics? Donald Trump's social media presence is the nightmarish inversion of that dream. Now, I don't mean that politically -- I won't be talking much at all in this article about what his campaign actually stands for -- I just mean that in the context of how he uses the internet. He uses it like a crazy person. Not someone who doesn't understand it, or someone who's out of touch. He uses it like a crazy person.

For the past few weeks I've been running a small Twitter project called @DebunkTrump that's focused on picking apart the stuff he says because I was sick of doing that on my own Twitter account but couldn't stop the actual research part because I'm obsessive and broken please help. Only a few days in, I've already learned something more interesting than any individual lie I could debunk: the Trump Twitter account is making up supporters out of thin air.



And given the spelling error, he clearly doesn't have a high opinion of his real ones.

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For those unfamiliar with how Twitter works, what Trump is doing there is quoting a tweet from the account @Sara_Wejesa and replying. This tweet means that @Sara_Wejesa tweeted to Donald Trump the words "Great speach!!!!!" (sic), and Trump is replying "Thanks!"