15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes

Re:15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes by signalsignal on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @03:54AM (#4349163)

Twitter follower updates lag like YouTube views. I expect this kind of political finger pointing will continue and gather steam on HN until the election. If Obama is re-elected then it will essentially stop, but if Romney is elected it will continue up for the next four years. This site is like r/technology-lite in many ways.

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Re:15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes by ShabbyDoo on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @04:12PM (#4352019)

I see two interesting aspects of the issue: (1) the astounding value in affecting perceptions of one's popularity and (2) the implementation schemes for #1. Whether Romney/Obama/whomever took any particular action is only a concrete instance upon which to consider these two ideas.

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