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Rachel Maddow Busted Using Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts To Boost Mentions Of Her Show
Twitter ^ | 3/1/13 | @LeftyBollocks

Posted on 03/01/2013 8:36:47 PM PST 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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakebutaccurate; madcow; madcowdisease; maddow; maddowtwitter; msnbc; pravdamedia; rachelmadcow; rachelmaddow; twitter
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To: jiggyboy

we can look these Twitter accounts up and see their history I guess


81 posted on 03/02/2013 1:40:19 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: icwhatudo

These low-life lesbians really rise to the top. Of course their usual haunt is the bottom of the cesspools where they can pick off the young tadpoles.

She and Helen Degenerate would make an interesting pair. No. Wait a minute that wouldn’t work would it? They’re both masculine type lesbos. Anyway, perhaps a new tv sitcom could be worked out using these two high-profile lesbians. It would be a comedy with cameo guests like Rozie O’Doughnut and ex-secretary of steaks: Hillary Rottham Clinton.

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82 posted on 03/02/2013 1:45:17 PM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: jiggyboy

Loura Dolecki, Bev Hibbard and Yasmin Ruts at least do not seem to be active any more, or are suspended


83 posted on 03/02/2013 1:45:47 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: jiggyboy

Jong Bindel also seems to be suspended.

How interesting.


84 posted on 03/02/2013 1:47:33 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Liberty Valance

What is that!?


85 posted on 03/02/2013 1:51:48 PM PST by matt04
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To: icwhatudo

Fake, but accurate... Isn’t this the DAN RATHER defense? LOL... Or, maybe his was... “It sounds like it could be true, so we believe it is & report it as true.”


86 posted on 03/02/2013 1:54:18 PM PST by GogogoStopSTOP (GogogoStopSTOP)
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To: GeronL

LOL yah it’s all coincidental of course. It’s hilarious to see a propaganda campaign pack up and run almost in real time.

Rush might break his own embargo on MSLSD on Monday to comment on this — in this case, he wouldn’t be re-broadcasting their content.


87 posted on 03/02/2013 2:06:05 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: JohnnyP

Including one called “Yasmin Ruts”.


88 posted on 03/02/2013 2:10:39 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: icwhatudo
Hey! We made the big time… sort of:

Icwhatudo / freerepublic.com:
Rachel Maddow Busted Using Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts To Boost Mentions Of Her Show — 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 …
Discussion: Vox Popoli, NewsBusters and Lawyers, Guns & Money

http://www.memeorandum.com/

BTW, isn’t she just following in the Dear Liar’s footstep?

89 posted on 03/02/2013 2:13:01 PM PST by Voice of Reason88 ( Freedom is never lost all at once - Edmund Burke)
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To: rfp1234

Yep.

Many of these have been “suspended”. I guess the system figured out that they were all sockpuppets sending the same messages.


90 posted on 03/02/2013 2:16:02 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: All

The clone army still has a few soldiers, all with very hot profile pics. A real-time twitter search courtesy of another site for the phrase that pays is here:

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23maddow+confession+football&src=typd

BTW here’s good advice from another site: you’re asking for trouble if you tweet the same thing as a joke, in case Twitter has set up some kind of auto-suspend procedure for this “virus”.


91 posted on 03/02/2013 2:38:54 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: GraceG

Are you being critical of God’s work? He did make make her you know. Maybe it’s people like you with opinions like yours that convinced her she was gay anyways.


92 posted on 03/02/2013 2:45:34 PM PST by Almondjoy
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To: jiggyboy
Ha, this one fake account isn't quite ready for prime time yet https://twitter.com/ayyleilanikrain

【RETWEET】#TFBJP #TEAMFOLLOWBACK #500ADAY #TEAMFOLLOWWACK #1000ADAY— Leilani Krain (@ayyleilanikrain) March 2, 2013

#90sBabyFollowTrain Retweet this You follow  I follow back  Unfollow=get unfollowed 👋 Simple 👍 #TeamFollowBack ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ 9— Leilani Krain (@ayyleilanikrain) March 2, 2013


93 posted on 03/02/2013 2:48:57 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy

Ha, it’s a toss-up as to whether these fake accounts are pretending to be cutie-pie college girls or ghetto drug dealers.

I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody who alternates between sounding like one or the other every couple of seconds.


94 posted on 03/02/2013 2:57:31 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: nhwingut
How about this?
95 posted on 03/02/2013 3:22:33 PM PST by pacificpundit
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To: tenger

Really?


96 posted on 03/02/2013 3:28:50 PM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: mike_9958

We don’t need to compete with liberal lowlife losers over the filthy liar’s turf... They own that ... they and the creeps they hire can have it.


97 posted on 03/02/2013 3:34:08 PM PST by GOPJ (To be free is to own one's risk - Jonathan Levy)
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To: icwhatudo

I hope I’m the first one to ask this, and haven’t scrolled down yet to see:
Was she also able to post pix of her bulging penis on Twitter, like
Anthony Weiner??


98 posted on 03/02/2013 3:37:59 PM PST by supremedoctrine (What thou lovest well, remains, the rest is dross.....)
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To: JohnnyP

I glanced at a bunch of those female names, by the way, and they ALL seem like improbable names, created by mismatching a first name from somewhere with a surname from somewhere else.
Believe me, they’re not even real names, and I’m so intrigued by my thesis, I’m gonna google a half dozen of them and report back.If they only show up on this one Twitter thread, you know they’re bogus.


99 posted on 03/02/2013 3:42:42 PM PST by supremedoctrine (What thou lovest well, remains, the rest is dross.....)
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To: supremedoctrine

Oh they’re completely fake. Pick any account and look at its tweets. They’re all an absolutely impossible combination of cutie-pie college student and multiple-offender profanity-prone ghetto drug dealer, with a number of tweets of hashtag-only tags perfectly and completely indicting it as a bot by “teamautofollow”.


100 posted on 03/02/2013 3:57:29 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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