92 Percent of Newt Gingrich's 1.3 Million Twitter Followers Are Fake Big fuckin' surprise coming from a big fuckin' douche, no? Excerpts:
More than 90% of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's approximately 1.3 million Twitter followers are either spambots or accounts not demonstrably connected to real people, an analysis by the web firm PeekYou found.
Gingrich boasted recently that his substantial number of followers eclipsed his rivals for the Republican nomination, a surprising feat for a man whose campaign appeared to be collapsing as prominent aides and fundraisers fled en masse. Gawker followed up on the story with a former Gingrich staffer who charged that Gingrich had employed various web agencies to purchase inactive or decoy accounts and build an illusion of a massive online following.
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..PeekYou had, by coincidence, been conducting a project on measuring Twitter audiences that included crunching data on presidential candidates. The Gawker post led researchers to reexamine data they had compiled on Gingrich and find that "a huge majority of his followers are either completely anonymous people who have no other web presence, or they are spambots," according to general manager of business and product development Josh Mackey.
This dude practically shits Family Values. I'm sorry he won't get the nomination, but I'm really hoping that he's still got enough lies in him to finance his "candidacy" through December. 2011 needs more laffs, and Gingrich is the man to deliver those laffs.
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