Donald Trump is a social media phenom with 10.6 million Twitter followers and 10.1 million fans on Facebook.
But the love for the Republican presidential nominee ends there, at least at those companies.
Inside the walls of the internet companies, a total of three employees — two from Facebook and one from Twitter — contributed a combined $3,400 to Trump's campaign for president, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. His Democratic competitor Hillary Clinton, by contrast, has 349 financial supporters from the two companies with donations totaling $187,100. The maximum amount an individual can give to a campaign is $2,700.
(The data cover the period from April 2015 through June 2016. Some donors no longer work at the companies.)
Trump's obsession with self-publishing on the websites is no secret. It's how he promotes his rallies, defends himself when attacked, ridicules the media and goes after his rival, most notably with the Twitter hashtag #CrookedHillary.
But he's notoriously unpopular in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the technology industry has soundly criticized Trump's proposals to restrict immigration and trade and his perceived denigration of women and minorities. Ahead of the Republican National Convention last month, more than 140 tech leaders, including executives from Twitter and Facebook, wrote an open letter opposing Trump's "divisive" candidacy and its threat to American business and innovation.