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Rachel Maddow Busted Using Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts To Boost Mentions Of Her Show

Posted on by icwhatudo

A poster on Twitter, upon seeing what he thought were very similar posts referencing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's show, did some searching and found out that Maddow has been using phony twitter accounts to boost her "mentions" on the popular website.

As can be seen by screenshots collected by a tweeter named @LeftyBollocks, Maddow has massive amount of accounts posting the exact same claim that "Confession: I yell at my TV while watching Rachel #Maddow talk about filibuster reform in the same way most people do during football."

With so many supposedly unique accounts mentioning her name, the term #Maddow has quickly risen to the top of trending topics on twitter-something @LeftyBollocks found odd since her show has so few viewers.



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This leads to the obvious question of whether Maddow is also somehow able to "game the system" to fake the number of viewers her program has. If she is, she is doing a terrible job of it.



To: icwhatudo

A moonbat committing fraud ? Say it ain’t so.



To: icwhatudo

bttt



by 3 posted onby BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)

To: icwhatudo

Bath-House does the same thing. JEEZE! These commies are sloppy.



To: icwhatudo

She is her only biggest fan



To: fieldmarshaldj

Non issue. Happens ALL the time in the twitter world. Millions of fake accounts out there being used to generate “social signals” for the search engines.



by 6 posted onby tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)

To: icwhatudo

Just as it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open, it is also impossible to be an honest collectivist.



To: Blue Highway

She hates men so much all the fake accounts are females.



To: icwhatudo

Good post!!!



To: tenger

Fake but accurate? LOL



by 10 posted onby icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)

To: tenger

It’s still dishonorable and embarrassing when a media figure like Rach gets caught in the act. Well, in that act, that is.



To: icwhatudo

Note the nomenclature. It looks like only six or seven out of all those first names and last names are what us old farts would consider to be serious names rather than statements or pretensions or simply random syllables.



by 12 posted onby jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)

To: icwhatudo

Madcow will deny it all and, without offering any proof, claim it was done by hateful, mean-spirited conservatives to make her look bad. The “media” will take her at her word, and without bothering to back-check her claim, report only what she says about the “incident”. Then it will go down the memory-hole, never to be seen or heard about again, and the “culprits” will never be “caught”. This is how the “media” operate today.



by 13 posted onby jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)

To: Blue Highway

"She is her only biggest fan." Re: She???? Looks more like a He to me.



by 14 posted onby Cribb (Home of Conservatism - America's middle class.)

To: Jet Jaguar

DanRiehl (‏@DanRiehl on Twitter) just picked up the story with a link to FR. http://riehlworldview.com/?p=28408



by 15 posted onby icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)

To: governsleastgovernsbest

ping



by 16 posted onby jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks icwhatudo.



by 17 posted onby SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)

To: Cribb

He does seem rather effeminate.



by 18 posted onby Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)

To: icwhatudo





by 19 posted onby Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)

To: icwhatudo

Looks like Madder has some ‘splainin’ to do.



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