I know Cracked article isn't exactly the pinnacle of journalism, but it appears the dude did his homework.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/trump-ha...fake-accounts/
Quote:
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!"
But if you click on those blue letters and actually go and look at Wejesa's account, you see that it looks like this:
Weird, right? @Sara_Wejesa has only tweeted once, and it's not even a tweet -- it's just a retweet of Trump's tweet quoting her. Which means that the tweet Trump is quoting was either deleted for some reason or never existed. Also, that account has three followers -- a robot account that only tweets pirated photographs of women in their underwear and two accounts that tweet exclusively about Trump but aside from that seem like they're just ordinary people.
The account Trump is quoting, @1Lion, has literally never tweeted. Kinda weird that someone would make an account, tweet at Trump once, happen to have Trump notice and quote that tweet, and then delete their only tweet afterward. Even weirder that this would happen twice in the same month.
Since that account was created seven years ago, it's unlikely Trump made it for his campaign unless this is a longer con than any of us could have anticipated. It's far more likely that he just found a dormant account and quoted it.
Not only is @RealEricJAllen's profile picture just a Trump banner, but he joined Twitter early in Trump's campaign, tweets an average of over 500 times a month, and every single tweet is either a Trump retweet or explicitly pro-Trump. In fact, it has tweeted the exact phrase Trump is quoting up there several times.
Think I'm exaggerating? Look, if you search through Trump's twitter history, you'll find that it's not at all uncommon for Trump to quote accounts that are not only not real, but obviously not real.
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EDIT: I should add that Trump appears to have a good chunk of real Twitter users sprinkled into his feed but it sure looks like there's a few obvious staffers, fake accounts, etc.