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Most of Newt Gingrich’s Twitter Followers Are Fake
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Aug 01, 2011 04:00pm |
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| Author | Gawker |
| News Date | Monday, August 1, 2011 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Yesterday Newt Gingrich laid out a new argument for why he should be the GOP presidential nominee: He's got the most Twitter followers. But according to a former Gingrich staffer, he bought them.
Gingrich complained yesterday that the press is ignoring his prodigious Twitter audience: "I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count." Which is true! Gingrich currently boasts 1,325,842 followers, whereas competitors Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann have yet to crack 100,000.
But if Newt is winning the Twitter primary, it's because of voter fraud. A former staffer tells us that his campaign hired a firm to boost his follower count, in part by creating fake accounts en masse: |
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