A verified @Faith4Hillary Twitter account purporting to be the "Faith and Value Voters for Hillary Clinton 2016" appears to have purchased a large percentage of its 42.6k followers.
The website Twitter Audit determined that more than half of the account's followers were obtained by "inorganic, fraudulent, or dishonest means," and the similar website StatusPeople calculated that only 18 percent of the account's followers were "good."
Per StatusPeople, the rest of the followers were either fake accounts or accounts that are inactive.
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UPDATE: The plot thickens. On Friday, when I ran the initial audit, the account @Faith4Hillary had 42.6k followers and 806 tweets. As of 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 6, the account has been purged of over 12,000 followers and currently has 30.5k followers and 835 tweets.
I wonder who she has running her astroturfing campaign. I bet they're not running it any more!

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