Fake Twitter meets No-Substance Romney

Mitt Romney suspiciously gets 116K Twitter followers in one day | Internet & Media - CNET News: "As of this writing Romney has 783,500 followers; apparently many of these followers are new to Twitter, which is a telltale red flag for fake Twitter accounts. According to Barracuda Labs, Twitter follow services charge around $18 for 1,000 followers plus extra for selling tweets and retweets. These dealers can be found on eBay or through Google searches. "This underground Twitter business is just blooming," Ding wrote.
Here's some of the report's stats on Romney's newest 152,966 Twitter followers (between July 21st and July 26th 2012):
The number of Romney's followers increased 17 percent (or 116,922) on a single day July 21, 2012 -- going from 673,002 to 789,924
25 percent of these followers are less than 3 weeks old (created after July 17th 2012), 80 percent of them are less than 3 months old
23 percent or about 1/4 of these followers have never tweeted
10 percent of these accounts have already been suspended by Twitter"

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