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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on July 22, 2012, 03:44:29 PM
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Liberal_in_LA (24,656 posts)
Romney camp used Colorado shooting as distraction to hide buy of 100,000 Twitter followers
The Romney campaign is facing allegations of buying Twitter followers after Romney’s Twitter account mysteriously gained more than 135,000 followers since Friday. The Romney campaign denies buying Twitter followers but fails to offer any reasonable explanation for the freakishly rapid growth in the last 48 hours.
The website 140elect.com, which tracks the Twitter presence of presidential candidates, first noticed the spike which began Friday afternoon and continued through Saturday, July 21. According to the website, Romney was gaining around 3,000-4,000 new followers per day for the past month. However, Friday, July 20, the number inexplicably and dramatically jumped as Romney acquired 23,926 new followers. On Saturday, July 21, the numbers exploded as Romney gained well over 75,000 Twitter followers for the day.
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Jason Easley at PoliticusUSA speculates: Something strange is going on with Mitt Romney’s Twitter account. It looks like the Romney campaign is using the Colorado shooting as a distraction to hide their buying 100,000 new Twitter followers.
NY AltNews reports Romney’s Twitter account is now surging with phony followers. The website suggests “spam automation, purchased traffic or perhaps even sabotage†are responsible for the inexplicable, dramatic surge in Romney’s Twitter account.
Romney’s Twitter account had over 673,000 followers on July 20, but his graph made a “hockey stick†leap yesterday, climbing to over 767,000. Nevertheless, Romney’s Twitter account trails Barack Obama's Twitter account by more than 16 million followers.
http://www.examiner.com/article/twittergate-romney-camp-denies-buying-twitter-followers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021000368
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What about all the twitter followers that Barry has? You know he paid for most of those, yeah, with our tax money. It is possible to get over a 100,000 followers in a couple of days. It happens all the time.
This is just another distraction to get people off of Barry's terrible record.
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Some conspiracy theory posts don't get locked. Why not post this one in Creative Speculation instead of GD, SunsetDreams?
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Tweeters are for sale? :???:
How much? Do they come with a certficate of authenticity?
If I order in the next ten minutes, do I get two?
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Tweeters are for sale? :???:
How much? Do they come with a certficate of authenticity?
If I order in the next ten minutes, do I get two?
I'm so tired of not being in the loop when the right wing is paying people to post at message boards and to follow Romney on Twitter. :banghead:
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Which is worse and illegal, buying Twitter followers or buying votes, and giving government loans for in exchange for campaign donations?
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:rotf:
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I didn't even know you could buy followers...
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Where's my money check? :mad:
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I'm so tired of not being in the loop when the right wing is paying people to post at message boards and to follow Romney on Twitter. :banghead:
Me neither Freeper. Dammit all to hades I wish I hadn't violated opsec at the VRWC HQ and got cashiered. :rant:
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This is just a lefty ploy to make it look like Romney is paying followers. His new followers are all liberals who will drop him in a week after the story dies down.
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Me neither Freeper. Dammit all to hades I wish I hadn't violated opsec at the VRWC HQ and got cashiered. :rant:
Reread the hearing papers. You're suspended, that's all. :tongue:
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How is this any different than buying supporter lists (emails and addresses) from former presidential candidates, PACs, etc.?
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Reread the hearing papers. You're suspended, that's all. :tongue:
Naaahhh, just kidding. It's crusifiction.
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Naaahhh, just kidding. It's crusifiction.
Well, that would be a "suspenstion," of sorts . . .
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The very headline is so chockful of insane stupidity that I'm rendered speechless.
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How is this any different than buying supporter lists (emails and addresses) from former presidential candidates, PACs, etc.?
My question too.
The "issue" is about as relevant as the price of soybeans in Burma.
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Hell, Obama borrowed and spent over 5 trillion dollars to buy friends and he's got fewer friends now than when he started...and taxpayers are stuck with the bill.
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Hell, Obama borrowed and spent over 5 trillion dollars to buy friends and he's got fewer friends now than when he started...and taxpayers are stuck with the bill.
Steel on target, and H5.
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I can explain the upsurge in twitter followers without the need for Romney to use bribes. It seems to be a common suspicion that Obama will use the events in Aurora Colorado to try to enact some laws banning weapons and people know that Romney is the best hope from keeping that from happening so they are listening to that he has to say.
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Where's my money?
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Where's my money?
China.
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Tweeters are for sale? :???:
How much? Do they come with a certficate of authenticity?
If I order in the next ten minutes, do I get two?
I wonder about that too.
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How does one "buy" twitter followers? Go to each one and give them a piece of Obamastash? Or Romneystash?
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What about all the twitter followers that Barry has? You know he paid for most of those, yeah, with our tax money. It is possible to get over a 100,000 followers in a couple of days. It happens all the time.
This is just another distraction to get people off of Barry's terrible record.
wonder how many we are paying to sit on their ass and twiddle their twitter thumbs?
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Tweeters are for sale? :???:
How much? Do they come with a certficate of authenticity?
If I order in the next ten minutes, do I get two?
If you call within the next FIVE minutes you get not 2 but 3 twitter followers AND a FREE set of steak knives !
For three easy payments of just $29.99 !
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If you call within the next FIVE minutes you get not 2 but 3 twitter followers AND a FREE set of steak knives !
For three easy payments of just $29.99 !
Envisioning the Sham Wow dude doing the commercial...
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Hummm that spike might have been around the time Romney was doing twitter wide advertising. But that could never be the reason. Nope not ever, really, not ever ever.
:-)
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I refuse to buy anything on time unless they are hard payments.