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Mr Trump announced his candidacy for the president of the United States in on 16 June 2015. But by January 2016, the retweet average had shot up to 2,201. When he announced he was running for president in June 2015, he had 2.94 million followers. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $12.It's us but for your ears. Even with the crackdowns, Trump’s Twitter account has seen massive growth since it was created in 2009. We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press.
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With Trump inching closer to passing the current No. 11 most-followed person on Twitter, Kim Kardashian West, we took a look at the most followed accounts overall on the social media platform. President Trump may have some of the most recognizable and important tweets on Twitter, but he does not have the most followers on the site.