The Washington Post's Bonnie Goldstein, of the "She The People" blog, reports (albeit erroneously):

It appears that the Twitter account @PaulRyansMom is the latest social-networking sock puppet to compete for eyeballs and voter saturation. I recognize that effective optics are necessary in a high-stakes presidential election, but it saddened me to see how quickly the message machine had replaced the appealing 3-D woman in yellow.

Since Saturday, the official cyber-presence of the VP hopeful’s snowbird mother has been cranking out 140-character campaign slogans on Twitter.... As of Monday morning, more than 180 people had followed the Betty blast (disturbingly, several describe their own Twitter feeds as “LIVE SEX CHAT.”) As I marveled at the thoroughness of the Romney social media directors, I noticed how quickly names of most of her Twitter fans were added to the list of those she ostensibly “follows.”