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Offline formerlurker

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Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers (70% fake)
« on: August 24, 2012, 03:58:00 PM »
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Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers

By David Jackson, USA TODAY
Updated 5h 16m ago

President Obama's Twitter account has 18.8 million followers -- but more than half of them really don't exist, according to reports.

A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama's crowd includes "fake followers," The New York Times reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased.

"The practice has become so widespread that StatusPeople, a social media management company in London, released a Web tool last month called the Fake Follower Check that it says can ascertain how many fake followers you and your friends have," the Times reports.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/08/obama-has-millions-of-fake-twitter-followers/1#.UDfq3KPAHOm
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Re: Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers (70% fake)
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2012, 05:22:32 PM »
I think I'll change my Twitter handle to "Fake 0bama Follower" because I don't really follow him so it would be true. I think.
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Re: Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers (70% fake)
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2012, 06:30:40 PM »
Fake but accurate.
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Re: Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers (70% fake)
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2012, 06:44:54 PM »
They are not fake. they are "composite" Twitter followers.
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Re: Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers (70% fake)
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2012, 09:28:50 PM »
Was it not just a few days ago that one of their operatives was proclaiming a scandal over some portion of about 100K of Romney's recent new followers being 'Purchased?'  They should move out of that glass house before going nuts with the brick launcher.
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Re: Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers (70% fake)
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2012, 09:29:48 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on August 24, 2012, 06:44:54 PM
They are not fake. they are "composite" Twitter followers.
All interchangeable, all named "Julie".
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