Mitt Romney Accused of Buying Twitter Followers
Source: Yahoo
Mitt Romney's Twitter account is creating controversy not because of any actual tweets, but because of a sudden and dramatic spike in followers. The presidential hopeful gained more than 135,000 new followers over the weekend; prior to that, he'd been racking them up at a rate of 3,000 to 4,000 per day. The Twitter tracking site 140elect.com noticed the extraordinary growth, and folks in the Twitterverse immediately began tweeting their own theories. Here's one: "That awkward moment when people notice Mitt Romney has been buying followers."
Others suggest the followers aren't even human. Certain signs point to the possibility that some new arrivals could be "Twitter bots," as they have trouble spelling certain words and have no followers of their own. The Romney campaign's digital director, Zac Moffatt, rejects that theory, saying, "We have reached out to Twitter to find out additional information regarding the rapid growth. "
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/mitt-romney-accused-buying-twitter-followers-183024486.html
That's the whole article. I hadn't really heard of TwitterTurf before now, but I can see it happening.
siligut
(12,272 posts)I hope Twitter can figure it out and then tell us.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Got a problem with that? Then you are just jealous of my success.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Yahoo hates Obama, look at all the children in the comments after
what ever Obama news is.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)"Others suggest the followers aren't even human ... as they have trouble spelling certain words and have no followers of their own."
If we haven't learned that that describes the average Republican voter, what have we learned?
siligut
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)"Get a brane morans, we is no bots, we is real."
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)(fill in the blank yourself).
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Only in the Republican Homeland of Deceptive Propaganda...
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Buying Twitter followers then would be pretty easy in comparison.
Alduin
(501 posts)Buying Twitter followers? That's the most pathetic thing anyone can do online.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)radhika
(1,008 posts)This whole Twit padding thing is news to me, fascinating.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/where-do-mitts-new-twitter-followers-
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Classic Freeper!
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)yet he won't pay extra taxes? What a country!
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)That would be interesting to see.
on edit: found it!
EarthCitizen
(5 posts)He's so "successful" he has to pay people to follow him.
It's kind of sad, actually
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)he gets more buddies than the entire population of the United States.
klook
(12,165 posts)LosMortales
(8 posts)Why not buy twitter bots? He wants to buy the White House. Mitt "Cyborg" Romney is a self-righteous liar, a predator, a self-righteous crook. To gain an appreciation of the depth and robotic sincerity of his self-righteousness, to gain an existential understanding of the cult that produced Mitt "Cyborg" Romney, and to get your socks scared off, read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew, available at:
www.amazon.com/Assassination-Spiro-Agnew-novel-ebook/dp/B0083EGJXC
Its brown-eyed, part-Mexican Mormon assassin dramatizes the Mormon superiority complex manifesting as jingoism and an anti-federal government temperament. It shows the similarities between Islam and Mormonism and reveals the secrets of Mormon mind control, the spiritual powers behind the cult.
Praise:
With a clarity of language and vision unsurpassed in contemporary American prose, Steven Janiszewski's Assassination of Spiro Agnew takes us into a U.S. mazed with madness and Mormonism and all things Utah, a U.S. that was then and still is. Do we need a novel, even as brilliant as this one, about a young man on a divine mission to assassinate the Vice President because he is too liberal? Yes, now more than ever. Readers, welcome to a masterpiece.
tomwhalen.com
Read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew.