{"id":8463,"date":"2012-08-17T09:41:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=8463"},"modified":"2015-11-03T21:30:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:30:18","slug":"willards-fake-twitterers-scrutinized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/willards-fake-twitterers-scrutinized\/","title":{"rendered":"Willard&#8217;s Fake Twitterers Scrutinized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/08\/17\/fake-twitter-followers_n_1794544.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney&#8217;s fake Twitter followers<\/a>. Let&#8217;s take a look at a recent, as in 3-days old, tweet by the ol&#8217; Willard:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barackobama\"><s>@<\/s><b>barackobama<\/b><\/a> cut Medicare to pay for Obamacare. As president, I will protect the commitments made to current seniors <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/5Go6VwAb\" title=\"http:\/\/mi.tt\/N0LG1f\">mi.tt\/N0LG1f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MittRomney\/status\/235449594320932864\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-14T18:55:32+00:00\">August 14, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First off, let me emphasize, this Romney tweet is <strong>THREE DAYS OLD<\/strong>. The Obama twitter account tweets every day, at least once, sometimes dozens of times, heck sometimes multiple times per hour (see image below). Why? Because <em>that&#8217;s how you build momentum!<\/em> If no one on the Romney campaign understands this, then they don&#8217;t understand social media, then they&#8217;ve already lost that sphere of voters. You&#8217;re NOT going to &#8216;rally the social troops&#8217; in under 100 days if you haven&#8217;t already begun.<\/p>\n<p>Second, you can copy the mi.tt shortlink to your address bar, add a &#8220;+&#8221; on the end, hit Enter, and find out that Romney is actually using bit.ly to process their links, and therefore <a href=\"https:\/\/bitly.com\/N0LG1f+\/global\" target=\"_blank\">the link statistics are public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Third, consider that Romney&#8217;s followers are NOT fake, let&#8217;s be clear: 1,011 retweets, accounting for a total of 1,307 clicks (including my own), from a pool of 864,420 followers, is pathetic. That&#8217;s 0.00151% traction. That means <strong>NO ONE IS LISTENING!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course Obama&#8217;s tweets are self-hosted &#038; private, so the metrics can&#8217;t be compared. But I think it&#8217;s safe to say that publishing a Presidential tweet every 3 days is not how you energize your base online.<\/p>\n<p>Kthxbai.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8471\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/willards-fake-twitterers-scrutinized\/obamatweets\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/obamatweets.png?fit=500%2C727&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,727\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"obamatweets\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/obamatweets.png?fit=500%2C727&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/obamatweets.png?fit=500%2C727&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/obamatweets.png?resize=500%2C727&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"obamatweets\" width=\"500\" height=\"727\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/obamatweets.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/obamatweets.png?resize=125%2C182&amp;ssl=1 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding Mitt Romney&#8217;s fake Twitter followers. Let&#8217;s take a look at a recent, as in 3-days old, tweet by the ol&#8217; Willard: .@barackobama cut Medicare to pay for Obamacare. As president, I will protect the commitments made to current seniors mi.tt\/N0LG1f &mdash; Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) August 14, 2012 First off, let me emphasize, this Romney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1229,55,768,623],"series":[],"class_list":["post-8463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekathon","tag-geekathon","tag-obama","tag-romney","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/obamatweets.png?fit=500%2C727&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2cv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8463"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15359,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8463\/revisions\/15359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8463"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}