Posted on 03/01/2013 8:36:47 PM PST by icwhatudo
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.
As can be seen by screenshots collected by a tweeter named @LeftyBollocks, Maddow has massive amount of accounts posting the exact same claim that "Confession: I yell at my TV while watching Rachel #Maddow talk about filibuster reform in the same way most people do during football."

With so many supposedly unique accounts mentioning her name, the term #Maddow has quickly risen to the top of trending topics on twitter-something @LeftyBollocks found odd since her show has so few viewers.
A moonbat committing fraud ? Say it ain’t so.
bttt
Bath-House does the same thing.
JEEZE! These commies are sloppy.
She is her only biggest fan
Non issue. Happens ALL the time in the twitter world. Millions of fake accounts out there being used to generate “social signals” for the search engines.
Just as it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open, it is also impossible to be an honest collectivist.
She hates men so much all the fake accounts are females.
Good post!!!
Fake but accurate? LOL
It’s still dishonorable and embarrassing when a media figure like Rach gets caught in the act. Well, in that act, that is.
Note the nomenclature. It looks like only six or seven out of all those first names and last names are what us old farts would consider to be serious names rather than statements or pretensions or simply random syllables.
Madcow will deny it all and, without offering any proof, claim it was done by hateful, mean-spirited conservatives to make her look bad. The “media” will take her at her word, and without bothering to back-check her claim, report only what she says about the “incident”. Then it will go down the memory-hole, never to be seen or heard about again, and the “culprits” will never be “caught”. This is how the “media” operate today.
She???? Looks more like a He to me.
ping
Thanks icwhatudo.
He does seem rather effeminate.
Looks like Madder has some ‘splainin’ to do.
Thanks for hitting the ping list! I wonder how she will weasel out of this one? My guess: “MSNBC pays for promotional yada yada yada...just like every other yada yada yada...I had no control yada yada yada”
Before the sex change operation ? What a shame.
What a lesbo! Er..I mean Manbo...er...nevermind
Sounds like a potential Newsbusters story, PJ, Wonder if the DUmmies will rush to their guy’s defense.
Sounds like a potential Newsbusters story, PJ, Wonder if the DUmmies will rush to their guy’s defense.
Sweet
How long does it take to set up enough accounts to effect the numbers? It seems like you could do that all day and it would be a drop in the bucket. Do they automate it?
Agreed.

Raymond Mildew
She looks pretty in that picture.
Laz would make a real woman of her.
You mean pretty much like a man.
“Twitter-turfing” ?
In all fairness, since we understand the word and the left doesn’t, it could be an employee or employee’s doing that without her knowledge. Heck it could be her boss.
FRiends, this thread isn't just us bitching amongst ourselves in a little "No Girls Allowed" treehouse. Many blogs are linking here.
Sigh... NBC was more enjoyable back when they only secretly planted explosives in pickup trucks to show how dangerous side gas tanks are.
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Ha, Mark Levin just tweeted on this, it’s bubbling all the way to the top of the VRWC.
Fellow dykes give that strapodicktomite street cred.
Seriously, would any decent, rational, intelligent male give that man-wannabe a second look? Other than to say, ‘make sure you check the windshield wiper fluid and air in the tires’.
Proof that she has not figured out how to fake her ratings. She has more fake twitters than viewers. If her ratings ever approach her number of fake twitters we will know that she has figured out how to fake her ratings.
It’s certainly a lot easier to pay shills than to put the effort into checking facts (it’s pretty bad to be called out by The Nation) and making an honest show, or having to twist facts every day to suit their ideological agenda. But apparently doctoring audio and video is easy and fun and cheap too.
The show where she ran that four-second clip 100-plus times of Rubio drinking water must have been the highlight of her career and the show’s bottom line.
Ha, I don’t even get MSNBC here. I just see clips on Newsbusters once in a while. I’d bet more people see and hear MSNBC’s absurdities via Newsbusters, Rush Limbaugh, National Review, et al than actually watch the show.
You would think Raymond Mildew would try to bind her twits.
Whoooo Hoooo This is linked on Drudge! Great job!
Be interesting to see the denials from Maddow, about how it wasn't her and people don't understand how twitter works etc etc.
Interesting the bots all of sudden stopped posting her spam a few hours ago after the story started to break big. Maybe her fingers got tired or maybe it was a one day contract.
For someone calling Scalia "a troll", its hilarious she got busted using them.
Wow, this guy really likes himself!
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