Earn Big Bucks at Home Retweeting Garbage Spewed by Nincompoops!

They call Twitter and Facebook "social media," but they have become increasingly anti-social. Online harassment is rampant. One guy was murdered for writing "damm" in response to a woman who posted a photo of herself in a swimsuit.

The Internet is packed with fake accounts and bots (half of Donald Trump's Twitter followers are fake), paid Russian trolls who create fake news and web brigades that fill comment sections with state-sponsored propaganda.

Now Politico reports that pro-Trump political operatives are trying to cash in:

From the moment he declared his candidacy, President Trump commanded legions of online followers. Now, having helped win the White House, factions of self-made social media operatives are redirecting their skills and infrastructure to promote other candidates nationwide.

Some are even vying to spin their experiences from the presidential race into new business models, seeking to promote other candidates by paying pro-Trump Twitter users to tweet and retweet scripted messages.

One of these operatives, Robert Shelton, has already suckered someone into his scam, but it doesn't seem to be working:

Chris Chamberlin, a gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota, was not impressed with his test run, particularly not given Shelton’s proposed fee of $6,000. Shelton did not remember if that was the figure, but Leigh, who was working as press secretary for Chamberlin at the time, confirmed it.

For a couple weeks in April, the @RobertsRooms network coordinated retweets of Chamberlin’s posts and distributed memes, including one claiming a Minnesota state legislator is “pro-jihad.” None of this material took off in the way Chamberlin expected.

“That’s kind of a concern if you’re boasting as part of the reason Trump got elected,” Chamberlin said in an interview.

“Not to say Robert isn’t talented,” he added. “But being charged dollars for a service that may or may not work is at best a risky option.”

Part of the reason this may fail is that, ultimately, real people will get bored with this crap. Getting paid nickels and dimes to retweet garbage some nincompoop in Minnesota is spewing out is just tedious. It worked for Trump because he was famous and was such a dickhead that he really stood out. But if everyone is a dickhead echoing other dickheads, all the dickheads will just drown each other out.

Americans claim that there are way too busy and there are never enough hours in the day.  Yet. Americans spend over two hours a day on social media. Worse, social media makes people unhappy. And it makes them feel isolated.

Sooner or later real people will tire of the moral cesspit that anti-social media has become, and the only users left will be bots and stiffs getting paid to be there.

Get out before some whack-job kills you for commenting on his girlfriend's swim suit! Plus, you'll get 12.5% of your life back.