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Did Rachel Maddow Use Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts to Boost Her MSNBC Show?
« on: March 04, 2013, 07:45:43 AM »
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2013/03/02/did-rachel-maddow-use-multiple-fake-twitter-accounts-boost-her-msnbc-sh

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"Confession: I yell at my TV while watching Rachel #Maddow talk about filibuster reform in the same way most people do during football."



Confession: I yell at my monitor while watching multiple Twitter accounts plug Rachel #Maddow with identical words in the same way most people do during football.

Perhaps Rachel Maddow can claim  that the multiple twitter accounts plugging her show with identical words was the work of her staff and/or fans which was done entirely without her knowledge but she would definitely risk her pants bursting into flames. These multiple Twitter accounts with the copy and paste plugs of Maddow's MSNBC show were revealed in this thread at the Free Republic:

A poster on Twitter, upon seeing what he thought were very similar posts referencing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's show, did some searching and found out that Maddow has been using phony twitter accounts to boost her "mentions" on the popular website.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2013/03/02/did-rachel-maddow-use-multiple-fake-twitter-accounts-boost-her-msnbc-sh#ixzz2MZvAAUSk
News Busters cite the FR thread that uncovered this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992736/posts

Link to the screenshot:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BEUozVNCEAA1mXr.jpg:large

The funny thing is she has probably more sock puppet accounts tweeting about her than actually watch.

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Re: Did Rachel Maddow Use Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts to Boost Her MSNBC Show?
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2013, 03:48:23 PM »
So it's a TV version of the old Liberal Underground site.
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Re: Did Rachel Maddow Use Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts to Boost Her MSNBC Show?
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2013, 07:07:28 PM »
Quote from: Airwolf on March 04, 2013, 03:48:23 PM
So it's a TV version of the old Liberal Underground site.

It has been a while that LU was around.
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Re: Did Rachel Maddow Use Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts to Boost Her MSNBC Show?
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2013, 07:50:35 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on March 04, 2013, 07:07:28 PM
It has been a while that LU was around.

Goes a long way to explaining how MadCow thought she might pull it off.  Wonder what s/h/its LU callsign was?
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Re: Did Rachel Maddow Use Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts to Boost Her MSNBC Show?
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2013, 09:44:58 PM »
Quote from: FiddyBeowulf on March 04, 2013, 07:45:43 AM
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2013/03/02/did-rachel-maddow-use-multiple-fake-twitter-accounts-boost-her-msnbc-sh
News Busters cite the FR thread that uncovered this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992736/posts

Link to the screenshot:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BEUozVNCEAA1mXr.jpg:large

The funny thing is she has probably more sock puppet accounts tweeting about her than actually watch.



It explains perfectly why these MSDNC shows that no one ever watches are always trending.
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