Inside the chaotic battle to be the top reply to a Trump tweet

Adam Best is always ready for a new tweet from President Trump. The Austin-based entrepreneur — and founder of the site Fansided —has set his phone is set to notify him the second the President hits “send”; since it’s his only Twitter notification, he rarely misses it.

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“There’ve been times I’ve been in bed and I’ll hear the alert and roll out of bed and start firing back,” Best told BuzzFeed News. Sometimes he’ll mock up a series of tweets on a subject in advance — say, the congressional investigation into the Trump administration’s ties to Russia — so he can copy them into an instant tweetstorm. For Best, a self-identified member of the anti-Trump #resistance, it’s a form of catharsis and a chance to “fight back” during what he calls a “particularly depressing time” in politics.

“Trump’s very predictable so sometimes it’s just like ‘BOOM!’ Two minutes after the Trump’s tweet I have a seven-part response that’s topical and engaging.”

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