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Since Americans are not particularly fond of Android Willard Mitt Romney and his wife, She Who Does Not Care For You People, he is going out and getting some new better more awesome friends (like Axton Chelsae who is totally Mitt Romney’s ‘ghettobwoi’, yo) on the Twitter Machine because winning the Twitter will make him bigger than current President Justin Bieber or that Lady GahGah person-thing. So how is he doing it?
Probably buying them using the drug money profits from one of his Grand Cayman accounts:
I’m not saying he bought them, but Romney’s follower stats have taken a sharp and sudden rise since Friday 5PM EST. Could it be a weekend blitz? Twitter noticed.
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Romney was gaining around 3000-4000 new followers per day for the past month. Yesterday he acquired 23,926 new followers and is climbing well over 50,000 today. The hourly stats make it pretty clear where this began.
There is probably a simple explanation for the fact that Mitt’s twitter minion list grew almost 10% since yesterday. I tend to think that it is because his Mittku (Lemon. Wet. Good.) has a certain appeal to a populace who increasingly find reading the whole 140 character thing to be both time-consuming and burdensome.
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Whatta shock. Not.
It’s what Republicans do. They are not popular, so they game the system to make it appear they are.
That makes it easier for them to steal elections.
Nothing says “enthusiasm” like “People won’t follow me on twitter unless I pay them.” Keep on truckin’, Mitt!
It’s the social media (god how I hate that term; the anti-social media is so much more entertaining and informative) equivalent of bulk conservative book purchases, where Inhuman Events buys 50,000 copies of the latest Ann Coulter vomitus and gives away a free book to anyone who will subscribe to their bullshit.
Can we call him Boss Tweet now?
Nonexistent people are people too, my friends.
Lemon.
Wet.
Good.
~
Garp.
Doesn’t seem to be much point in doing something like this. Twitter can be used by a political campaign to spread the word about things, but why would empty accounts that you paid for care what you have to say?
Because telling people that you “have a girlfriend in Canada” doesn’t cut it anymore.
Just imagine if Mrs-Mitt, the 5 Jr Mitts and their delightful
ball-n-chainsspouses plus the 18 (count ‘em!) grand kids all start to twitter-twat about!Goddamnit Scotty! This Twitter Machine can’t take much more ultra-white! She’s gonna kerplode!
Hey! I’ve -been- teh girlfriend in Canada. And I am cold.
Also – Lion Kitty Maxx.
Nice and a very apt ref.
The Romneys are genuinely scary/ creepy people. Who has the nerve to tell the press to f*** off when pressed on a Presidential candidate releasing tax returns? It matters whether the POTUS is a venture capitalist who destroyed jobs and stole pensions and hid his money to avoid paying taxes. It really does matter, you disgusting Marie Antoinette elitist clown queen.
It matters whether the POTUS is a venture capitalist…
I’m sure his campaign WISHES he as a venture capitalist, at least then they could (almost) plausibly claim that his whole purpose was working to blaze new and exciting trails that would create jobs jobs jobs. Instead they have to somehow explain capital equity as anything other than corporate raiding, which is what it is.
I keep thinking of Richard Gere in Pretty Woman, and how he decided to save the shipbuilder rather than destroy him. Maybe all Mitt needs is a little Julia Roberts.
I know I do.
Isn’t Willard currently unemployed? I mean, aside from being a professional presidential candidate….
That comment he made and the little laugh that followed is all you need to know about Romney. Really funny Mitt, you stole these peoples pensions and retired on the money you made off destroying their lives, but it’s funny how you say you’re ‘unemployed’ too with 100 Million in the Caymans. Really hilarious.
Blasted tax returns!
You People won’t let it go.
Nothing to see here…
Ann’s dressage ponies
are jut used for therapy.
(They take drugs for her.)
I won’t say to lie;
just open Twitter accounts
using fake IDs.
Tweet me a river.
I know I could just buy you,
but love me, dammit!
Enrique Peña Nieto did the same thing with his twitter account… and look where it got him.