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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

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To: icwhatudo

You got picked up by Drudge.


61 posted on 03/02/2013 11:30:52 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: tenger
It's an issue.

If it wasn't an issue Maddow wouldn't bother being a fake... You know that.

She's counting on people believing her lies - believing Twitter lies... It's like all the dem trolls - and their rent-a-crowd tactics. They hire people off Craig's List to 'protest' too. One lie after another. All meant to trick their own supporters. Yeah, we know they're lying. Who do you think Maddow's 'target' is? It's the liberal idiots who dems always play for fools.

It's all a lie - and Dem paid shills are liars too.

If everyone was as cynical - or knowledgeable as you are tenger - Rachel and dems wouldn't spend a dime pushing the liars they have to pay for... You don't think she makes all these posts do you? She pays the same lowlife trolls the rest of the dems pay. Dems do this because they're trying to play citizens for fools. That's how little respect they have for everyday citizens.

You know that, right? Dems don't pay trolls for nothing...right?

62 posted on 03/02/2013 11:33:11 AM PST by GOPJ (To be free is to own one's risk - Jonathan Levy)
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To: Jet Jaguar; Jim Robinson

Awesome! Hopefully it drives more traffic to Free Republic-my home for nearly 15 years now. Thanks Jim for giving us the platform to not only report the news but to affect what is covered.


63 posted on 03/02/2013 11:50:01 AM 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: icwhatudo

They’re all afflicted with madcow disease.


64 posted on 03/02/2013 12:10:28 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: icwhatudo

how pathetic


65 posted on 03/02/2013 12:16:57 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: icwhatudo
Very disappointing, he seemed like such a nice young man.
66 posted on 03/02/2013 12:40:44 PM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: icwhatudo; Revolting cat!

I overheard some programmers discussing how to flood twitter trends (don’t know if it was a class project or something else).

Only people who should be affected are those who go to the record store with no idea what they should buy until they see what the top ten lists tells them to buy. Same with seeing movies.

This culture is so fixated on “what’s hot right now!” publicity releases. Who gives a f**t what movie had the biggest boxoffice take this weekend? If you don’t have points in the profit or a shareholder stake in the studio, it matters not.


67 posted on 03/02/2013 12:46:57 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: nhwingut


68 posted on 03/02/2013 12:47:59 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Liberty Valance

Wow she looks just as androgynous with long hair and jewelry, note the squared forehead around the eye brows and the rather thick neck.

69 posted on 03/02/2013 12:49:52 PM PST by GraceG
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To: JohnnyP
She hates men so much all the fake accounts are females.

LOL, good catch.

70 posted on 03/02/2013 12:50:33 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Liberty Valance

She looks better as a man.


71 posted on 03/02/2013 12:53:24 PM PST by EnquiringMind (th)
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To: icwhatudo

I wouldn’t blame Maddow for this, as fun as it might be to do so (and think it’s disingenuous for the article to do so): I’ve seen publicly released reports by my own company, completely apolitical stuff, become the subject of similar tweets, where dozens of accounts tweet the exact same thing containing a link to my content. I know I’m not doing it (and it’s a three person company and the other two people know absolutely nothing about Twitter.) I’ve seen the same thing happen with blog posts, too: sites just steal content and pretend it’s their own.


72 posted on 03/02/2013 12:55:44 PM PST by kenboy
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To: GeronL

@Smokeybehr posts on twitter

@icwhatudo @DanRiehl @TwitchyTeam Looks like the #Maddow spambots have all been taken offline. All accounts are coming up as suspended.


73 posted on 03/02/2013 1:01:01 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: icwhatudo

remember there are companies that take payments for doing that, I think even Newt Gingrich got caught doing it a while back.


74 posted on 03/02/2013 1:03:17 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: icwhatudo
MSNBC responds:

msnbcPR ‏@msnbcPR

Spam on #maddow hashtag is not coming from the show or any producers. Have reached out to Twitter to investigate Details

(Just like the decision to release the criminal illegals wasn't Obama?)

75 posted on 03/02/2013 1:04:54 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: icwhatudo
The spamming continues:

Epifania Guyton ‏@iamepifania9343 21 minutes ago

Confession: I yell at my TV while watching Rachel #Maddow talk about filibuster reform in the same way most people do during football.

76 posted on 03/02/2013 1:24:12 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: GeronL

per this NYT article, he and Romney have been accused but both have said they didn’t:

“Fake Twitter followers briefly made the news in July, when Mitt Romney’s Twitter following jumped by more than 100,000 in one weekend — a much faster rate than usual. A flurry of news reports purported to expose the practice of buying followers. “Romney Twitter account gets upsurge in fake followers, but from where?” read a headline on the NBC News Technolog blog.” (The Romney campaign has denied it bought followers.) Similar claims were lobbed at Newt Gingrich last year; his campaign also denied that he paid for any of his 1.3 million-strong Twitter following.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/fashion/twitter-followers-for-sale.html?_r=0


77 posted on 03/02/2013 1:28:51 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy

I thought I remembered that


78 posted on 03/02/2013 1:32:28 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: icwhatudo

Well that’s good enough for me. They must be real. I wouldn’t even think that there could be such a thing as paid shills.

Maybe they should “reach out” to their own payroll people. “What’s this check for, who is this ‘Beeks’ fellow?”


79 posted on 03/02/2013 1:32:35 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: icwhatudo

Ha, they’re just ginning up a new bunch of bots. Statistically improbable first name, check, statistically even more improbable last name, check, female, maybe, check...


80 posted on 03/02/2013 1:35:00 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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