Oh what a tangled web we weave....Newt Gingrich's twitter followers are only 8% human. The rest of the former Speaker's followers are generated by spam bots and phony accounts. Mr Gingrich had surged into second place in the Republican twitter wars behind only Sarah Palin. PeekYou a New York search firm uses algorithms to determine how many twitter followers are actually human, you know real people, as opposed to spam and corporate accounts etc. When it came to the GOP field, what stood out was the percentage of verifiable humans that follow Newt Gingrich: just 8% of the total.
“At first, we actually thought it might have been a bug,” says Michael Hussey, PeekYou’s CEO and founder. “We have seen some pretty low consumer ratios in our testing, but Newt’s was the lowest we had ever seen.”
A former Gingrich aide (aren't they all former?) told Gawker that the former Speaker was paying for followers. His 1.3 million followers allow Gingrich to spoof the press into believing that his campaign is generating interest among real people. Had Gingrich only reached out to Anthony Weiner he would have known that twitter can sink a political career.
Okay, well this guy's remarks about Newt are really funny. Doesn't he know a newt's a salamander, not a bug? Ha.
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