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The Bridge is any person in a social network who connects two other network clusters. Not every bridge is an influencers, but you cannot be an influencer unless you are a bridge. If someone has access to the entire social network graph, then they can identify all the bridges and target them with their message at much lower cost that sending the message to everyone. If the message sticks, then the bridges will influence the rest of the population.
This is the key to wide area mind control which is required to win elections. Unfortunately it did not work for Hillary because her message was TRUMPED by the other candidate who traveled to many more towns and delivered his message personally. So even though you have more sophisticated technology, it can be TRUMPED by the other guy making the best use of what he has, especially if he can predict your moves in advance. The major weakness of those who have advanced technology is that they put too much faith in it and do not fully understand how the older ways can be used.
You may have heard the phrase, "It is all about the execution" in a business context. That is because winners in business are not the ones with the most resources who are in the strongest position. It is the ones who execute most flawlessly with the right timing. They will TRUMP the big guy everytime.
Now can you imagine what might cause a particular businessman to spend his whole life perfecting this kind of approach. Why would somebody dedicate his life to learning how to TRUMP the opposition.
Maybe it was all in the name…