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Rachel Maddow Busted Using Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts To Boost Mentions Of Her Show
Twitter ^ | 3/1/13 | @LeftyBollocks

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakebutaccurate; madcow; madcowdisease; maddow; maddowtwitter; msnbc; pravdamedia; rachelmadcow; rachelmaddow; twitter
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This leads to the obvious question of whether Maddow is also somehow able to "game the system" to fake the number of viewers her program has. If she is, she is doing a terrible job of it.
1 posted on 03/01/2013 8:36:58 PM PST by icwhatudo
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To: icwhatudo

A moonbat committing fraud ? Say it ain’t so.


2 posted on 03/01/2013 8:39:26 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: icwhatudo

bttt


3 posted on 03/01/2013 8:39:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: icwhatudo

Bath-House does the same thing.

JEEZE! These commies are sloppy.


4 posted on 03/01/2013 8:40:23 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: icwhatudo

She is her only biggest fan


5 posted on 03/01/2013 8:41:52 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: fieldmarshaldj

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.


6 posted on 03/01/2013 8:41:59 PM PST by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: icwhatudo

Just as it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open, it is also impossible to be an honest collectivist.


7 posted on 03/01/2013 8:42:33 PM PST by lurk
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To: Blue Highway

She hates men so much all the fake accounts are females.


8 posted on 03/01/2013 8:44:33 PM PST by JohnnyP
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To: icwhatudo

Good post!!!


9 posted on 03/01/2013 8:44:53 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: tenger

Fake but accurate? LOL


10 posted on 03/01/2013 8:46:46 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: tenger

It’s still dishonorable and embarrassing when a media figure like Rach gets caught in the act. Well, in that act, that is.


11 posted on 03/01/2013 8:46:46 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: icwhatudo

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.


12 posted on 03/01/2013 8:48:02 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: icwhatudo

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.


13 posted on 03/01/2013 8:48:38 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Re: "She is her only biggest fan."

She???? Looks more like a He to me.

14 posted on 03/01/2013 8:52:03 PM PST by Cribb (Home of Conservatism - America's middle class.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
DanRiehl (‏@DanRiehl on Twitter) just picked up the story with a link to FR.

http://riehlworldview.com/?p=28408

15 posted on 03/01/2013 8:52:26 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

ping


16 posted on 03/01/2013 8:53:34 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks icwhatudo.


17 posted on 03/01/2013 8:55:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Cribb

He does seem rather effeminate.


18 posted on 03/01/2013 8:57:33 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: icwhatudo

19 posted on 03/01/2013 8:59:03 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: icwhatudo

Looks like Madder has some ‘splainin’ to do.


20 posted on 03/01/2013 8:59:47 PM PST by Jane Long
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