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02-25-2013, 01:30 AM
Congressman Steve Stockman's campaign Twitter account has received a grand total of 16 tweets following Obama's command to his followers for people to tweet their congressman demanding a vote on gun control. (Meanwhile we've received at least 1,000 pro-gun emails from real constituents.)
But only six appear to be actual people. We're thankful to hear from them. The other ten, however, are interesting in their own way.
These other 10 accounts link back to what appear to be spambots. They all use the default egg avatar, they have account names resembling auto-suggested names, they engage in no human interaction. they tweet promotional, sponsored messages and they follow mostly MSNBC anchors or media outlets, not actual people. They are completely unlike the accounts used by verifiable people at least don't appear to be actual people themselves.
Even more interesting, two of these accounts happened to tweet us back-to-back. They both share the follower, former Obama "digital strategist" Brad Schenck, who somehow found and followed them before they ever tweeted anything, followed anyone or followed any real people.
Is Obama employing spambots in a failed attempt to create phony "grassroots support" for gun control? Screencaps are coming...
UPDATE: Robert Stacy McCain reports account information finds the majority of the Obama-supporting accounts have been created in the last 48 hours.
http://donnyferguson.blogspot.com/2013/02/egg-on-his-face-large-majority-of.html
Stockman tweeted that link
But only six appear to be actual people. We're thankful to hear from them. The other ten, however, are interesting in their own way.
These other 10 accounts link back to what appear to be spambots. They all use the default egg avatar, they have account names resembling auto-suggested names, they engage in no human interaction. they tweet promotional, sponsored messages and they follow mostly MSNBC anchors or media outlets, not actual people. They are completely unlike the accounts used by verifiable people at least don't appear to be actual people themselves.
Even more interesting, two of these accounts happened to tweet us back-to-back. They both share the follower, former Obama "digital strategist" Brad Schenck, who somehow found and followed them before they ever tweeted anything, followed anyone or followed any real people.
Is Obama employing spambots in a failed attempt to create phony "grassroots support" for gun control? Screencaps are coming...
UPDATE: Robert Stacy McCain reports account information finds the majority of the Obama-supporting accounts have been created in the last 48 hours.
http://donnyferguson.blogspot.com/2013/02/egg-on-his-face-large-majority-of.html
Stockman tweeted that link