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warrior1

(12,325 posts)
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 02:31 PM Jul 2012

Romney’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.

What’s happening? It seems to have started Friday, when Romney’s 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 it’s 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 OP
That's how bots took over my blog. yellerpup Jul 2012 #1
funny... abolugi Jul 2012 #2
I take offense at the term "outsource". I am an international employer. Rmoney Jul 2012 #3
Ha Ha! RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 #8
lol warrior1 Jul 2012 #4
McCain did that in 2008 (or his campaign did) Ruby the Liberal Jul 2012 #5
Newt did it too. warrior1 Jul 2012 #6
LOL! Yep - was just going to add this: Ruby the Liberal Jul 2012 #7

yellerpup

(12,249 posts)
1. That's how bots took over my blog.
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 02:42 PM
Jul 2012

They swarmed it and I had to close the comments section because it was nothing but spam.

Rmoney

(10 posts)
3. I take offense at the term "outsource". I am an international employer.
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 03:24 PM
Jul 2012

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.

Ruby the Liberal

(26,217 posts)
5. McCain did that in 2008 (or his campaign did)
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 06:09 PM
Jul 2012

Bought a mountain of twitter followers to look popular - but most of them were bots.

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