Romney outsources Twitter followers!

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Last edited Sat Jul 21, 2012, 05:28 PM - Edit history (1)

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/21/561221/is-mitt-romney-buying-phony-twitter-followers/

@MittRomney has already attracted more than 100,000 new followers on Saturday, far more than his average 1,000 – 6,000 per day, and the new followers “seem to have major trouble with spelling simple English words, have names that sometimes seem to be random assortments of syllables, and have no (or very few) followers themselves”

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[maddezmom]

1. twitterbots

or would those be tweetbots? Either way, wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

[flamingdem]

2. juicy story

lol

[Courtesy Flush]

3. Dang. Just thought of a better headline!

Romney outsources Twitter followers!

[2pooped2pop]

11. perfect n/t

[maddezmom]

14. you should edit it

[C_U_L8R]

4. of course Rmoney thinks money can buy friends

but it won't get him the kind of love
he needs to get elected

[Politicalboi]

5. It's all of us

Retroactively of course. When we find out about his refusal to release his taxes, we will drop him like his other 5 wives.

[annabanana]

6. Probably. I expect MOST of his friends and associates are purchased. . . n/t

[Robb]

7. Oh, man! Look at the graph:

...THAT's not suspicious.

[siligut]

10. Thanks Robb, trends can be used to decipher truth

Lies come from all directions, truth has just one.

[Curtland1015]

8. Names of some of the spam-bots that followed ME when I joined Twitter:

*Roxanne Crumpton
*Gigi Toulousi
*Linda Lilly
*Loretta Griswold

All "hot chicks" of course... I must REALLY be popular with the ladies!

[progressivebydesign]

9. You're right. Just looked at the newest followers.. most are not in America...and are bots.

I have no doubt that they've farmed this out to the philippines. I was just reading an article about how companies there will get your photos to win contests online, vote for you online, follow your page, etc. I have no doubt this is the case. I bet if we look at the profiles of these new followers, they are fakes.


It's pretty obvious.. his most recent followers that I checked out, were fakes from other countries.... God.. does the romney camp thing we're stupid??

[siligut]

13. We are an irritant, nothing more

The romney camp has cash and they believe money is power. Most people are not us, most people will not look at ISPs.

[ProSense]

12. Interesting

the new followers “seem to have major trouble with spelling simple English words, have names that sometimes seem to be random assortments of syllables

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002985084

[Archae]

15. I'm not surprised one bit.

Rmoney would sell his wife's soul to get elected.

[RedStateLiberal]

16. Bots For Romney 2012

[freshwest]

17. OMFG!

[WI_DEM]

18. his twitter followers are twits.

[Rmoney]

19. I am charismatic! Just because you people aren't classy enough to recognize

high class, jetsetting, successful CEO's such as myself is not my problem.

**See explanation here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=994446

[Robb]

20. Superior twitter account:

http://twitter.com/MlTTROMNEY