Scandal! Study Accuses President Obama Of Inflating His Twitter Follower Numbers

by Jon Bershad | 4:11 pm, July 12th, 2010

» 13 comments

Forget that Black Panther voter intimidation nonsense, this is the real scandal! An Australian organization named uSocial has accused a number of public figures of gaming their Twitter accounts by inflating their numbers of followers. The list of people accused includes Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and even the most powerful man in the free world: Justin Bieber! Oh, and also President Obama.

This is clearly shocking, earth-shattering news, but how can we trust some Australian website over our own politicians and floppy haired tween sensations? Well, according to New Jersey Newsdesk, uSocial would know these people are cheating the system because it’s their job to show people how to do just that.

From New Jersey Newsdesk:

The Australian company describes itself as the first firm to sell advertising on Twitter. On the front page of its website, uSocial offers a link for those wanting to “buy followers” on Twitter.

That takes would-be buyers to text and video ads, asserting, “We know the secrets of making you a rock star overnight.” The company says that it can deliver “up to 100,000 targeted, real Twitter followers to your account.”

“Big follower numbers can mean big dollars,” the ad says, noting the success of business social media marketing often depends on numbers generated by networking sites.

Hill did not immediately reply to a question as to whether any of its own customers are among the leaders in phony numbers.

But according to the uSocial statement, it is “extremely likely” that at least 15 of the top 100 Twitter users with the largest followings have inflated numbers. It considers another 10 of the top 100 as possibly juiced.

This is about as timely a scandal as you can get. Nothing screams 2010 like politicians getting heat for lying about the amount of people who read messages shorter than this paragraph while waiting in line at the cafe. Seriously though, if we can’t believe what the Obama administration says about their Twitter followers, how are we supposed to believe them about the important stuff? You know, stuff like their public statements, policies, and Farmville stats.

(via Newsweek)

Arnold Schwarzenegger, barack obama, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, twitter, uSocial

mproust

Jon Bershad, yet another blogger dragged up from the lib garbage heap by Mediaite.
http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

No worries… once the house is taken back in 2010.. this pink unicorn president will be rendered void and null. Then it’s on to Nov 2012 to finally kick his hopey, changy ass out.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Shepherd/1723011764 Stephen Shepherd

They don’t even say if it’s the OFA @BarackObama account or the Admin @WhiteHouse account. I see no line graphs either. Where are the LINE GRAPHS? Easily the most important information I’ve read today.
valkyrie101

Further evidence that Obama is a racist.
BR

Its Bushs fault!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Noland/1343446359 Dave Noland

WTF? Are you kidding? I fucking hate this stupid ass site. Why is this news on any level?

Hay Bobomatic the Bush years are over and I wouldn’t count your congressman before they’re hatched. Remember that this is the GOP trying to gain power. With 3 months until election anything can happen.
valkyrie101

BR said:
Its Bushs fault!!!!

Touche, as far as liberals go, but not me, I like Bush. A good man who did the best he could. If he erred, and he certainly did with respect to the “torture” issue, then that is human. He took responsibility and made some bold moves. I think history will judge him better than the Republicans are judging him now. His economic problems related to: tax cuts and war at the same time. And indeed, Obama inherited that no win situation.
PureFreedom

What… we should not trust the word of the Great one … our messiah? This like telling us we should not trust the main stream news either….. They who run the Main media know way more then I do and for sure Hollywood stars like Ben Affleck point me in the smart direction of politics… But my morals and values really connect with all the smart black panthers who voted for Obama.
so you are wrong sir!
felixw

I have complete confidence that the President doesn’t need to inflate the number of twits who follow him.
valkyrie101

felixw said:
I have complete confidence that the President doesn’t need to inflate the number of twits who follow him.

excellent. :-)
The_Reasonable_Lib

What’ll they come up with next? Did he also have Mickey Mouse going to the polls to vote? ha ha
http://none pyrope

When one considers the entireity of mr. –0bama’s radical agenda, and the scandal of what he is doing to the United States, this little ditty is not at all newsworthy. Don’t you folks at Medeaite have more important things to write about?
http://none pyrope

Dave Noland said:
WTF? Are you kidding? I fucking hate this stupid ass site. Why is this news on any level? Hay Bobomatic the Bush years are over and I wouldn’t count your congressman before they’re hatched. Remember that this is the GOP trying to gain power. With 3 months until election anything can happen.

If the Bush years are over, please tell me why your Messiah and his libtard acolytes are still blaming him for their screwups.