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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: Zuben Elgenubi

What I caught, searching, is the many of those names are from SUSPENDED Twitter accounts.


101 posted on 03/02/2013 3:58:10 PM PST by supremedoctrine (What thou lovest well, remains, the rest is dross.....)
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To: nhwingut

Holy Shiite! Bieber is a better looking woman than Maddow!


102 posted on 03/02/2013 5:03:25 PM PST by Lady Jag (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
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To: icwhatudo
do I really have to say it???

103 posted on 03/02/2013 5:27:20 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: pacificpundit
100%
104 posted on 03/02/2013 5:35:32 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: supremedoctrine

I think the Twitter system figured this out and suspended these sockpuppet (probably done by a PR firm) accounts.


105 posted on 03/02/2013 5:35:51 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Almondjoy

God’s work?

No, she is all a self-made...er... thang

:p


106 posted on 03/02/2013 5:38:31 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GOPJ

GOPJ - I’m not saying lie - I say marketing.

For instance reach beyond the MSM. Obama reaches maybe 10-20% of people by speaking to entertainment and leisure type venues directly - GOP nothing - we don’t even compete.

The GOP basically ignores an entire segment of the population - given they barely know any politics, but they do vote. Most of the population doesn’t even go to church... they get their morals from movies and games.


107 posted on 03/02/2013 5:43:12 PM PST by mike_9958
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To: icwhatudo

This is a non-issue for the moonbat-princess. If anything, it only raises the esteem of her madcow liberal sycophants for doing what comes naturally for them.


108 posted on 03/02/2013 7:31:56 PM PST by lbryce (BHO:"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds by way Oppenheiner at Trinity NM)
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To: icwhatudo

OK, so it is obvious that SOMEONE is carrying on an astroturf campaign. But how do we know definitively it is Maddow? It could be a fan. It could be someone at MSNBC, but not on her staff... short of MSNBC and/or Maddow admitting something, we really have no proof it was Maddow that did this.


109 posted on 03/02/2013 7:51:36 PM PST by CWCoop
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To: CWCoop

It’s spamming. What they probably did was hire it out. Googling “twitter accounts for sale” shows a bunch for sale on ebay.


110 posted on 03/02/2013 8:06:53 PM PST by Jimmah
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To: wiggen

:)Or it could come from the person to make the most money in all fairness shimself.


111 posted on 03/02/2013 8:41:24 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: icwhatudo
excellent post about a deserving weirdo.
Here's a nice pic of Mr. Maddow and her significant other, "wife"


112 posted on 03/02/2013 8:51:30 PM PST by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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oops, here is the correct size pic:

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

113 posted on 03/02/2013 8:54:21 PM PST by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: vox_freedom

Jim J Bullock is straight? Who knew?


114 posted on 03/02/2013 8:55:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: icwhatudo

Multiple Personality Disorder.

Or in plain English, nutty as bat shit.


115 posted on 03/02/2013 9:19:14 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: icwhatudo
What difference does it make now???!?!?
116 posted on 03/02/2013 10:00:36 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: nhwingut

Ricky Maddow has a VERY big Adam’s apple.


117 posted on 03/03/2013 3:09:57 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION........the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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To: Liberty Valance

Still looks like a dude.


118 posted on 03/03/2013 12:31:06 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: icwhatudo
MSNBC fake twitter scandal widens-Lib Blogger finds Ed Shultz using paid spambots to promote show

Say it ain’t so Morning Joe! http://riehlworldview.com/?p=28444 #MStwittergate now spreads to Joe Scarborough

119 posted on 03/03/2013 1:25:08 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: icwhatudo

fraud, making their programs, themselves, channels, agenda and polls etc is what the fringe extreme left wing kooks do all the time so this is no surprise at all.


120 posted on 03/03/2013 4:14:10 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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