09-24-2013, 14:19
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Michelle Obama Has Nearly Two Million Fake Twitter Followers
lol Over half of Obama's are fake. 
Nearly 2 million of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Twitter followers are not real.
According to the Twitter analytics application Status People, 37 percent of Michelle Obama’s 5,290, 506 Twitter followers — or approximately 1,957,487 followers — are considered fake. Thirty-five percent of her followers are inactive, and 28 percent are considered “good,” or real.
Michelle Obama’s account is run by Organizing for Action, and sent its last Tweet on March 4. It was a retweet of a message sent by the Twitter account of the First Lady’s Let’s Move initiative.
The official Twitter account for the Office of the First Lady is @FLOTUS. Only 25 percent of the account’s 513,026 followers are considered fake. 38 percent are inactive, and 37 percent are considered “good.”
Percentage-wise, she still fared better than President Barack Obama. Over half of Obama’s Twitter followers, according to a Sept. 20 Daily Caller report, are fake – 55 percent, or 20.2 million out of 36.8 million followers, to be more exact.
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09-24-2013, 14:28
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Damn, I have 2 twitter followers and I think one of them is fake too!
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PRB is online now
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09-24-2013, 14:30
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I have not and probably never will understand what draws people to Twitter.
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09-24-2013, 14:40
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I have not and probably never will understand what draws people to Twitter.
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Brevity, succinctness and timeliness of receiving messages and info.
Plus there is lots of unfiltered porn! 
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09-24-2013, 14:43
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I would have thought all but about 6 accounts were false.I bet we are paying someone to Twit in her name anyway.
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09-24-2013, 15:10
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Brevity, succinctness and timeliness of receiving messages and info.
Plus there is lots of unfiltered porn! |
Porn?! On Social networking sites? Say it ain't so!!!!!!
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09-24-2013, 16:36
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I have not and probably never will understand what draws people to Twitter.
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The ability to appear stupid to a wider range of people instantly.
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09-24-2013, 16:41
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The ability to appear stupid to a wider range of people instantly.
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lolol Spew!
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09-24-2013, 18:26
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The ability to appear stupid to a wider range of people instantly.
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If this was Facebook, I would "like" this comment!
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09-24-2013, 18:49
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What, exactly, does that mean (fake followers)? Does that mean that someone, like her staff, is going on there and creating fake followers to make it seem that she is more popular than she really is? If that is true, that's repulsive.
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09-24-2013, 19:18
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No more than the number of dead voters that voted for them......
It is all fake, electronic popularity for the sheeple.
Real popularity is counted by the number of people that would piss on you to put you out if you were on fire.
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09-24-2013, 23:32
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The ability to appear stupid to a wider range of people instantly.
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Thanks ddoering that just made my night!
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09-25-2013, 06:38
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What, exactly, does that mean (fake followers)? Does that mean that someone, like her staff, is going on there and creating fake followers to make it seem that she is more popular than she really is? If that is true, that's repulsive.
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There are electronic "bots" that go out and follow popular people. It's not necessarily deliberate on the part of her staff, it's just the way that Twitter works.
Here's an article on selling "follows"
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...make-cash.html
and here's one on tools to find out how many fakes there are in a given account
http://socialmouths.com/blog/2012/08...ter-followers/
I've seen estimates that run from 25% to 40% of all twitter accounts are bots that are trying to send spam or purchased followers.
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09-25-2013, 07:45
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I've seen estimates that run from 95% to 100% of all democrat pols are bots that are trying to send spam or purchase followers.
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Fixed that post.
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09-25-2013, 08:22
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Michelle Obama Has Millions of Twitter Followers...
...and the “world is more stable now than it was five years ago.”
...the check is in the mail...
...I won't co...never mind...
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