Feng Ts'ai

Facebook Likes Trump Followers

In the 2016 election, Trump took advantage of Facebook marketing as a means of helping him reach another crowd rather than the conventional television advertising his competitors were using. He would test tens of tens of thousands of distinct ad variants–with or without subtitles, photos or videos, etc.

Fast forward 2020, Facebook is again crucial to President Trump’s re-election campaign. This year’s Trump 2020 Campaign has spent about $5 million on Facebook ads, approximately half that of the 23 mixed Democrat applicants, as The Times reported yesterday. For the apparent reasons, Trump is relying on Facebook: it is the biggest social network in the nation and a great way to reach voters directly. And the relationship is not one sided – Facebook likes Trump as well.

Buy Facebook Likes and Buy Facebook Followers more Pressing than Ads

The Trump campaign is partly in favor of Facebook because it tolerates rule breaks. For Trump, Facebook has a material benefit: the social network’s focus on fighting lies and propaganda was narrow and limited. Facebook prefers to fight fake Facebook accounts or some teenager who buy Facebook likes AppSally or buy Facebook followers rather than addressing its money maker Facebook ads. Buying Facebook page likes and Facebook followers rampant, but does not carry any implication on the future of Americans.

The social network has constantly failed to implement its own strategies in the year, despite promises made by top execs to do better than in 2016, so Trump has been permitted to buy fake or misleading advertisements. Much of the issue is that Facebook likes to depends on its spotty algorithms and refuses to invest the necessary funds to efficiently control advertisements. This begs the question, does Facebook likes Trump or what? The social network has deny any political affiliation.

Facebook Likes the Elections Impact on its Revenue

Following Trump‘s footsteps, some 2020 Democrats are also starting to pump more cash on Facebook. Since Biden announced his candidacy on April 25, nearly $1 million has been spent on Facebook ads, far exceeding the total of around $455,000 spent on Trump during the same period. His campaign said that donors particularly reacted heavily to Axios videos which helped the former vice-president raise big amounts of cash. And only last week, according to NBC News, Kamala Harris slightly overspended Trump by releasing a number of advertisements criticizing anti-abortion laws suggested by conservative nations.

The impact of Trump’s re-election is critical for the trade war between Trump and China. The clash between the two giants has deep implications on the rest of the world. And Facebook is indirectly helping Trump, whether Facebook likes to admit it or not.

Twitter followers trend #BoycottChineseProducts

China blocked the fourth attempt to label Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, prompting an army of enraged Indians and their Twitter followers to trend the #BoycottChineseProducts on Twitter.

Many users also have Chinese applications such as TikTok, UC Browser and PUBG uninstalled to express their anger at the move. Many people have also suggested that there should be a replication of global trade war on their social media sites, and as a responsible citizen people should not buy Chinese goods or endorse their services. Such move to boycott Chinese products is seen by Twitter followers as a mark of patriotism and zero tolerance of terrorism.

Despite the fact that Twitter has been plagued by Twitter users who buy real Twitter verification followers and Twitter likes, such incident serves to remind us how powerful the social media platform still is to disseminate information and express freedom of speech. Especially Twitter, who is largely forgotten or often perceived as losing its appeal. The platform is still incredibly popular in India where it is not uncommon to find Indian users with hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers and Twitter likes. It is not clear the reason behind the massive followers on Twitter, be it coming from Twitter free Twitter followers, Twitter bots or simply because of the massive population in India.

“Let’s understand that India is China’s largest market for its industries, it can’t keep making profit from us and at the same time keep supporting terrorists that bleed us. It’s high time that @narendramodi imposes heavy duties on Chinese goods,” said Pawann Durani, a Twitter user with thousands of Twitter followers. The tweet gathered tons of Twitter likes and Twitter retweets in the hour after posting.

“#BoycottChineseProducts definitely it’s need of nation now, China more dangerous than Massood Azhar and “Baazwaa Gang”.

Note. It is worth pointing out that Twitter recently contemplated removing Twitter likes as a counter move against the bot activities.

Twitch followers frustrated by China block

Twitch has joined Google, Twitter and Facebook on the China ban-wagon. The live streaming platform confirmed that it was blocked in China. Chinese authorities have not issued an official statement explaining why Twitch has been blocked.

Rise of Twitch Followers & Twitch Views in China

Shortly after enjoying a major bump in popularity among Chinese Twitch followers due to the Asian esports competition held in Jakarta, both the app and website were cut off. Two Twitch streamers were caught streaming the League of Legends (LoL) competition, a very popular game title in China.

Chinese LoL Twitch followers were frustrated by the block as many gaming tournaments are not streamed on state-run media CCTV in China. So the only way for the Chinese to watch the tournaments were through Twitch. What more, watching live streams on Twitch is completely free and there is no need to buy Twitch followers subscription. Twitch’s iOS app skyrocketed to top 3 free app before the ban.

Twitch Followers Buy Bits to Support Streamers

Twitch is a popular video streaming platform owned by Amazon. The platform allows fans to follow Twitch streamers and become their avid live stream viewers. Top Twitch streamers like Tyler “Ninja” Blevins enjoys celebrity status, even in China. Ninja live streams Fortnight and has more than 13 million Twitch followers, 400 million Twitch views and regularly breaks hundreds of thousands of live stream viewers when online. Ninja’s Twitch followers and Twitch views doubles his closest competitor Shroud, who has close to 6 million followers and close to 300 million Twitch views. A review of the top streamers with the most Twitch followers reveals Fortnite as the most popular game on Twitch.

Live streamers make money from Twitch when their live stream viewers and Twitch followers buy Bits, a virtual currency on Twitch. Twitch provides a share of the revenue that Twitch receives from Bits to participating streamers. Top Twitch live streams like Ninja makes millions from streaming on Twitch alone.