Less Than Half of Hillary's Twitter Fans Are 'Real, Active': Report Read Latest Brea
04-15-2015, 12:18 PM
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Less Than Half of Hillary's Twitter Fans Are 'Real, Active': Report Read Latest Brea
Less Than Half of Hillary's Twitter Fans Are 'Real
Wednesday, 15 Apr 2015 11:51 AM
By Joel Himelfarb
Although Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton claims to have attracted 3.6 million Twitter followers, "not even a vast right-wing conspiracy would be able to interact with 2 million of them," the Daily Mail reported.
Two popular online measuring tools found that no more than 44 percent of Clinton's Twitter fan base "consists of real people who are active in using the social media platform" and at least 15 percent (more than 544,000) "are completely fake," according to the British newspaper.
The new measurements will add to the Clinton presidential campaign's embarrassment following news on Tuesday that a large number of her Facebook fans may represent "likes" that were purchased rather than earned.
While Clinton served as secretary of state, her department was reportedly buying likes on Facebook, according to a report by The Associated Press last year.
In 2013, the State Department said it would stop buying Facebook fans after its inspector general criticized the agency for spending $630,000 to artificially increase the numbers, AP reported.
Clinton left the State Department during the inspector general's investigation.
Facebook says it has entire teams of employees responsible for exposing schemes to create fraudulent "likes" and that it works to remove them.
In yet another early embarrassment for Clinton, the Daily Mail reported that a woman who portrayed a kindly, gardening grandmother in the campaign launch video "is actually a former abortion lobbyist who once helmed a campaign for Texas state Senator Wendy Davis."
Wednesday, 15 Apr 2015 11:51 AM
By Joel Himelfarb
Although Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton claims to have attracted 3.6 million Twitter followers, "not even a vast right-wing conspiracy would be able to interact with 2 million of them," the Daily Mail reported.
Two popular online measuring tools found that no more than 44 percent of Clinton's Twitter fan base "consists of real people who are active in using the social media platform" and at least 15 percent (more than 544,000) "are completely fake," according to the British newspaper.
The new measurements will add to the Clinton presidential campaign's embarrassment following news on Tuesday that a large number of her Facebook fans may represent "likes" that were purchased rather than earned.
While Clinton served as secretary of state, her department was reportedly buying likes on Facebook, according to a report by The Associated Press last year.
In 2013, the State Department said it would stop buying Facebook fans after its inspector general criticized the agency for spending $630,000 to artificially increase the numbers, AP reported.
Clinton left the State Department during the inspector general's investigation.
Facebook says it has entire teams of employees responsible for exposing schemes to create fraudulent "likes" and that it works to remove them.
In yet another early embarrassment for Clinton, the Daily Mail reported that a woman who portrayed a kindly, gardening grandmother in the campaign launch video "is actually a former abortion lobbyist who once helmed a campaign for Texas state Senator Wendy Davis."
04-15-2015, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by kidoggy
how is it that she gets busted for everything she does ,yet ,nothing ever comes of it?
04-16-2015, 04:12 AM
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you will find no mention of it in the mainsteam media. so ,evidently it is not. truth is no one really cares because everyone on facebook is a liar and we have been conditioned to expect nothing else.
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04-16-2015, 03:49 PM
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Hillary paid Facebook to add likes on Hillary's behalf. Who is stupid enough to believe the comment by Facebook about having teams that expose and remove fraudulent content when they are the one's responsible. Facebook has always been a fraudulent scheme and it seems Twitter manipulates popularity as well.
I find it offensive that half of our citizens are dumb enough to trust their beloved libtard cons but it is sickening that a majortiy of the people are dumb enough to read that article and not condemn Facebook for that fraudulent statement.
There should be an IQ test to prove competence to vote. I am for whatever is needed to keep elections free and not determined by mindless zombies.
I find it offensive that half of our citizens are dumb enough to trust their beloved libtard cons but it is sickening that a majortiy of the people are dumb enough to read that article and not condemn Facebook for that fraudulent statement.
There should be an IQ test to prove competence to vote. I am for whatever is needed to keep elections free and not determined by mindless zombies.
Last edited by d80hunter; 04-16-2015 at 03:52 PM.
