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Obama's 'Fake' Twitter Followers Explained
American Thinker ^ | 09/27/2013 | Daren Jonescu

Posted on 09/27/2013 8:18:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Barack Obama has 36.9 million Twitter followers, 19.5 million of whom, it turns out, are fake. This is a very disturbing sign

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; corruption; democrats; fraud; obama; twitter; whatarethefrnicks
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1 posted on 09/27/2013 8:18:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s a fake. Why shouldn’t his followers be?


2 posted on 09/27/2013 8:20:37 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

His percentage of fake twitter followers is probably equal to his percentage of fake voters.


3 posted on 09/27/2013 8:22:36 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of the Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: SeekAndFind

Duh, did any of the 19.5 Million vote for him in 2012? Google’s CEO might know - - - .


4 posted on 09/27/2013 8:22:41 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf

For that matter, how many of those who “voted” for him last year were real people?


5 posted on 09/27/2013 8:23:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

pretty frightening all this fakeness and fraud


6 posted on 09/27/2013 8:24:20 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: TBP

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 09/27/2013 8:25:19 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: SeekAndFind

Does anyone know how a Twitter follower is deemed to be “fake”?


8 posted on 09/27/2013 8:27:48 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: Hardraade

Don’t forget his “fake” life created by whom?


9 posted on 09/27/2013 8:28:37 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: TBP
Money Quote:

Now I ask you, if you did not exist, but wished to stand up and be counted anyway, could you choose a better faction with which to align yourself than the Obama administration, a better cause to join than progressivism? The defining characteristic of a nonexistent person is, of course, his unreality. And who represents the cause of unreality more vigorously than President Obama? Though some of his opponents have not yet accepted the postmodern truth of this man, it has for some time been apparent that the reason we do not know "who he really is" is the most obvious reason of all -- he really isn't.

10 posted on 09/27/2013 8:28:49 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SeekAndFind

ALL of Øbongo’s followers are fakes - some more than others...


11 posted on 09/27/2013 8:29:26 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: smokingfrog

I remember an article I read in college in which a certain character was described as “a totally fictitious and nonexistent person.”


12 posted on 09/27/2013 8:29:50 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Then there were the ones that voted ten times, ya think? Then there were the voting machines serviced by the Unions, ya think? Then there were the illegals who voted, ya think? Then there were the suspicious RATs manning the polls, ya think? And, let’s not forget the suspicious campaign donations from where, ya think?


13 posted on 09/27/2013 8:30:21 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: smokingfrog

As I was going up the stair
I met a man, who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away. (William Hughes Means)


14 posted on 09/27/2013 8:31:09 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“...that is, followers who don’t really exist — are those of Barack Obama (by a landslide), Joe Biden, Michelle Obama, and the White House communications department.”
The takeaway is that the white house is behind all these accounts, probably NSA or some similar organization. This would be essentially no different from the IRS scandal. It’s the exact same mentality.


15 posted on 09/27/2013 8:33:10 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: justlurking

Most likely they are accounts that never post any personal viewpoints and just retweet the WH, DNC & MSNBC talking points. They probably pay people or recruit some folks in the unions to sign up for a few dozen accounts and make it look like they have popular support. Astroturfing


16 posted on 09/27/2013 8:34:07 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: justlurking

“Does anyone know how a Twitter follower is deemed to be “fake”?”

Likely many different ‘twits’ that trace back to the same user?

Kinda like those with multiple screen names on a website that all trace back to the same computer.

One Twit creates many Twit accounts.


17 posted on 09/27/2013 8:35:46 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: SeekAndFind

These 19 million are automated, and there to pimp the administration’s memes to the sheeple, through the creation of a “groundswell” of opinion. the sheeple thinks, “If so many of my “Friends” believe this, I should, too!”

You can literally watch how a meme is pimped on Twitter, in real time, with thousands of these fakes repeating whatever the admin wants out.

There are firms that specialize in creating and managing these fake Twitter accounts, as well.


18 posted on 09/27/2013 8:36:09 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: SeekAndFind

The 20 million fakes don’t bother me.. That is how socialists do business.. The 16 real people that listen to him... now that is a scary thought!!


19 posted on 09/27/2013 8:36:15 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: SeekAndFind

Now we know what the Teleprompter is up to when Obama’s not doing a speech!


20 posted on 09/27/2013 8:38:16 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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