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Fake fans likely cause of Romney Twitter spike

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I know this is really inconsequential compared to more serious issues being voiced in this year's campaign but what I found interesting about this particular story was the fact that it comes from an IRISH media outlet. The USA must be seen as the big dog on the world stage when fake Twitter accounts can be a story in another nation's largest newspaper.

Fake fans likely cause of Romney Twitter spike

MOST OF Mitt Romney’s newest Twitter followers are fake, according to an investigation of bogus social media accounts. A pay-for-follower service most likely drove the presumptive Republican nominee’s recent and dramatic spike in online followers, concluded Barracuda Labs, a digital security company.

The widely reported surge in tens of thousands of new followers for @mittromney from July 21st – which provoked commentary and suspicion – appeared to have been purchased from a dealer, it said. “We believe most of these recent followers of Romney are not from a general Twitter population but most likely from a paid Twitter follower service.”
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