magley64 Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/mitt-romney-accused-buying-twitter-followers-183024486.htmlMitt Mitt Mitt, ya gotta at least buy them in believable increments, maybe buying 3-4000 a day was too slow, so ramp it up, 5000, 6000 7000...Don't buy 135,000 at random... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disclaimer Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 Buy companies, buy followers, buy votes ... there's nothing in this world that can't be bought.It's just to the point where the politicians are completely unabashed about it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-bus Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 Politics is surreal anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/239537-romney-campaign-denies-rumor-they-bought-twitter-followers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted July 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 yes, Mitt is "catching up" Obama still has 22x the followers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 yes, Mitt is "catching up" Obama still has 22x the followers...Actually, I was going more for:"I’m not saying he bought them, but Romney’s follower stats have taken a sharp and sudden rise since Friday 5PM EST," Green wrote. Romney's campaign on Monday denied those claims."We have reached out to Twitter to find out additional information regarding the rapid growth," Zac Moffatt, the Romney campaign's digital director, told BuzzFeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disclaimer Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 "We have reached out to Twitter to find out additional information regarding the rapid growth," Zac Moffatt, the Romney campaign's digital director, told BuzzFeed."Furthermore, Twitter has informed us that the key to rapid growth was to give them money and they would increase our follower count." Implied Mr. Moffatt with his prior ambiguous statement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted July 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 oh, my link had pretty much the same info, I was just being sensationalistic, and accusatory in my description.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. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheech Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 Gingrich got caught doing this too, he had 1.3 million followers and about 103,000 real breathing people.http://gawker.com/5826960/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 oh, my link had pretty much the same info, I was just being sensationalistic, and accusatory in my description.I know. I was just pointing that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-bus Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 Gingrich got caught doing this too, he had 1.3 million followers and about 103,000 real breathing people.http://gawker.com/5826960/Now if Romney can figure out how Obama got that 1.2 million to vote for him in '08, he'd be set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted July 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 i know. I was just pointing that out.LoLTL;DR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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