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Did the Romney Campaign Just Get Punk'd Again? DU gets a mentions
Two weeks ago, the Mitt Romney campaign was seemingly punk'd when the GOP presidental candidate's Twitter account suddenly picked up more than 100,000 new Twitter followers in a single weekend. Many of the followers appeared to be bots, and the fake followers were used to make fun of Romney, as #MoreFakeMitt started trending on Twitter. Zac Moffatt, the Romney campaign's digital director, confirmed that the campaign had not bought the followers.
Today, the Romney campaign tells Whispers that there's been an online glitch once again.
A number of people, some of whom seem unlikely to cast a vote for Mitt Romney, reported this week that they quite suddenly found themselves spammed by fundraising E-mails from the Romney campaign, many of which arrived at their workplaces or used other hard-to-find E-mail addresses.
Jillian York at the Electronic Freedom Foundation seems to have been the first to notice the spamming, as well as the commenters at the online community Democratic Underground.
more:http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/08/13/did-the-romney-campaign-just-get-punkd-again
here is the DU thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125168594
belated welcome to Jillian York.
and just saw another tweet about it.
Eric Umansky @ericuman
Anyone gotten campaign email from Ann Romney--w/o having signed up on campaign list? B/c I just did. pic.twitter.com/P3dVoGLE
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)But these people make him look like wise King Soloman. The incompetence and buffoonery of this campaign is off the chart.
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)Not saying this was Anonymous, but it's got their fingerprints. Hope there's no skeletons in ole' Mitt's closet...