Why Not? He Buys Everything Else.
It appears that Mitt Romney is outsourcing his Twitter followers.
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign may be buying up Twitter followers to pad the former Massachusetts governor’s online presence.
@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”:
Okay, so I have about 4 Twitter followers. I didn’t buy a single one of them. At least two of them, I would pay to go away.
Thanks to Cheryl for the heads up.
Well, there are spam-bots and website-bots and all manner of malware-bots and what have you. So why not twitter-bots? Though it seems, oh, I dunno, incredibly pathetic to me. What is it supposed to accomplish? Who is it supposed to impress? (Gomer Pyle voice: “Lame, lame, lame!”)
1Just one question, can you deduct that?
2Maybe Ann is forcing some of the domestic staff to sign up on “the Twitter”. Of course that’s something “you people” wouldn’t understand.
3The Romney graph is a freaking hockey stick. Maybe the Koch brothers bought him some and didn’t understand that outsourcing jobs as twitter sluts to foreign countries might not look “natural”.
4I miss Gomer and Barney Fife. When they did stuff like this they knew it was a joke. Rmoney and friends have no clue.
5I’ve held steady with about 30-35 followers since I signed on with Twitter, and I’m very proud to say you’ve been one of them…thanks.
6Do the radical righters understand that faking numbers for Twitter is not the same as faking numbers in the financial industry? Twitter is real.
7Just remembered why much of Myth Romney’s campaign feels so familiar–high school student body president! That’s it–the privileged kid with the money for signs & gimmicks buying himself some popularity. The sophistication level is high school, too.
8“major trouble with spelling simple English words”? Must be Tea Party members.
9I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Mittens parents had to pay the neighbor kids to play with him.
10It gets funnier and funnier and I do mean hilariously: http://thumpandwhip.com/2012/07/21/black-women-in-mitt-romneys-twitter-account-are-fake/
11If that doesn’t get you rolling in the aisles, try this for size: http://thumpandwhip.com/2012/07/21/team-romney-cant-figure-out-how-to-name-imaginary-black-men/