Most of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Are Fake, Report Suggests

WHBQ-TV ^ | August 1, 2011

[2ndDivisionVet]

Well, that should be the final nail in that coffin.

[conservaterian]

Pathetic. Go back to Tiffany’s Newt.

[tsowellfan]

Hmmm... interesting. Newt has the largest number of followers using the default Twitter profile picture that I’ve ever seen.

http://twitter.com/#!/newtgingrich/followers

[tsowellfan]

I kind of doubted this story until I went to look at who his followers are. I’m more convinced now.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined," Gingrich told the Marietta Daily Journal

That's because you're six times the twit, Newt.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’m not a Newt fan but I find it extremely weird that the Gawkers never checked to see how many of their boy’s followers are fake. I’d be willing to bet it’s around 80%.

[momtothree]

Pretty pathetic... reminds me of “imaginary friends”. I hate a liar even with trivial matters.

[PhilDragoo]

It appears he's got a strong showing in the egg-shaped demo.

[Mears]

Did you ever think you would see the day that followers on a dumb website called Twitter would even be discussed regarding the Presidency?

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[GeronL]

That would be easy to check. OKAY, Freeps with twitter accounts, go and see if thats true. lol

[tsowellfan]

I hate to tell you how much of an increase I got in online sales in my business using Twitter and Facebook.

[tsowellfan]

I'm actually a fan of Newt on some issues such as drilling. I think he's very well spoken but not one I'd like to see as President. That being said, I just checked his followers on Twitter and it appears this story may be true.

Many (more than I have ever seen)have no photo just the Twitter default pic. That's odd.

[Mears]

Good for you. My age is showing. :-)

[tsowellfan]

Another thing I noticed. I quickly chose at random 4 of his followers with the default pic and neither of them ever posted anything. 0 Tweets.

Not looking good for Newt

[ElectronVolt]

Most of Newt is fake, too, so it’s OK.

[GeronL]

Are you able to see if they have any followers or following anyone else?

[tsowellfan]

Listen to this one. My mom who is 76 cant get off Facebook. We have a friend named Ernest Smith. He lives in the same state as us. My brother’s mother-in-law also on FB made friends with him too and now they go to church together.

I thought this man was probably 70 and found out he’s 93!

He’s a WW1 veteran. Always on Facebook. Very nice man. Very interesting man.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1752237482&sk=wall

[GeronL]

Yep. It looks like a few of those fake followers are now “following” feeds from WSJ and Fox Sports and stuff, lol.

They have no real friends, waaahh

[GeronL]

I thought all the WW1’s were supposed to have passed away? Wasn’t there a news report saying so a few weeks/months ago?