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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney’s Twitter account surging with phony followers
http://nyaltnews.com/2012/07/romneys-twitter-followers-mysteriously-surge-overnight/20653/I wonder what country he outsource this job to.
Mitt Romney has gotten extremely popular on Twitter in the last 24 hours. In fact, he is receiving 25 new followers per second as I write this.
Whats happening? It seems to have started Friday, when Romneys typical average of 3,ooo-4,000 per day increased some twenty fold to over 62,000 in a single day, according to TwitterCounter.com. But the new followers are highly suspect. From empty accounts to pornbots, spambots, Justin Beiber-related accounts, Obama supporters and foreign accounts, the followers tell a puzzling tale, suggesting spam automation, purchased traffic or perhaps even sabotage.
Accounts like @banvardrazjzk or @etonyge have ten or less tweets, some containing gobbledygook characters and despite only following a few accounts themselves, they each have hundreds of followers, implying its part of a mass-generated fake account network.
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Romney’s Twitter account surging with phony followers (Original Post)
warrior1
Jul 2012
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yellerpup
(12,249 posts)1. That's how bots took over my blog.
They swarmed it and I had to close the comments section because it was nothing but spam.
abolugi
(417 posts)2. funny...
Rmoney
(10 posts)3. I take offense at the term "outsource". I am an international employer.
I have many fans and suc.....devotees on my side here and abroad. In fact, I'm having a wonderful campaign fundraiser in London with a few very dear foreign friends of mine from Barcley's.
Of course, I wouldn't expect any of you people to understand the complexities of being a Swiss account owner such as I.
RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)8. Ha Ha!
warrior1
(12,325 posts)4. lol
Ruby the Liberal
(26,217 posts)5. McCain did that in 2008 (or his campaign did)
Bought a mountain of twitter followers to look popular - but most of them were bots.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)6. Newt did it too.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,217 posts)7. LOL! Yep - was just going to add this:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20087188-93/newt-gingrich-accused-of-twitter-follower-fraud/
Found that when I was looking for the McCain twitfail.
Found that when I was looking for the McCain twitfail.