via C&L: not super-SUPER important, but a thread maybe to follow...
NY ALT NEWS: Romney’s Twitter account surging with phony followers
By Gustav Wynn 7/21/12
Mitt Romney has gotten extremely popular on Twitter in the last 24 hours. In fact, he is receiving 25 new followers per second as I write this.
What’s happening? It seems to have started Friday, when Romney’s typical average of 3,ooo-4,000 per day increased some twenty fold to over 62,000 in a single day, according to TwitterCounter.com. But the new followers are highly suspect. From “empty” accounts to pornbots, spambots, Justin Beiber-related accounts, Obama supporters and foreign accounts, the followers tell a puzzling tale, suggesting spam automation, purchased traffic or perhaps even sabotage.
Accounts like “@banvardrazjzk” or “@etonyge” have ten or fewer tweets, some containing gobbledygook characters and despite only following a few accounts themselves, they each have hundreds of followers, implying it’s part of a mass-generated fake account network.
there's all i'll post, though in cases of TRUTH i don't give fuck much about rules... just GET THAT TRUTH OUT.
steady on.