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Collier's followers lack backgrounds

May 11, 2018 1:11 pm
Roger Hannigan Gilson at The Other Hudson Valley.com reports that roughly two-thirds of Democrat Congressional candidate Erin Collier’s Twitter followers may be fake. Thousands of Collier’s followers on Twitter lack a bio, or any followers themselves, and have never tweeted anything. "A random sampling of 100 of these profiles shows every single one was created in the last six weeks — since the beginning of April," Gilson writes, and then tests Collier’s account at the website Twitter Audit. That app shows that 69 percent, or 3,693 of Colliers’ 5,376 followers are not real as of May 10. By comparison, we put WGXC's account into Twitter Audit, and it claimed 99 percent of WGXC followers are the actual Twitter accounts of real human beings, with 20 fakes. The Collier campaign did not take Gilson up on an opportunity to comment. Collier is among seven Democrats trying to take over the District 19 Congressional seat now held by Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook). Read the full story at The Other Hudson Valley.com.