“I

love Twitter,” Donald Trump once tweeted. That love i s manifest in more than 34,000 tweets since he took up the mantle @ realDonaldTrump and over 350 in the weeks since he became the US president.

Trump has more than 27 million followers on Twitter, and countless more are likely to see his messages, either amplified online or parroted in the endless news reports about whatever Trump just tweeted.

Only a select few of these millions, by comparison, ever tweet back at Trump — and many of those are robots programmed to interact with @ realDonaldTrump.

What drives anyone else to tweet at a president?

Trump’s 10 most- engaged Twitter followers over the past 30 days include five confirmed robots and three accounts that appear to be bots, according to audience data collected by Social Rank.

Trump’s most prolific respondent, @ Trump2016_ Fan, has posted more than 18,000 times in the past year, mostly all- caps messages of support for the 45th president. The account appears to be automated and did not respond to a request for an interview.

But there are plenty of humans in the 20,000 or so replies generated by a typical Trump tweet.

These are piled like building blocks beneath each tweet, a tower of typos, insults, and encouragement that stretches on and on — and the replies bundled nearest to @ realDonaldTrump are likely to be seen by hundreds of thousands of users. through social media and try to make a difference that way.”