If you are on Twitter then you’ve probably seen this magical act happen before. Where someone whose account has 150 followers suddenly turns up with 1000 the next day, and you know they didn’t spend all night following people and asking for follow backs.
This doesn’t raise dust when it concerns mere mortals like us. But in July 2012, Presidential aspirant Mitt Romney experienced a scandal of ‘Twitter’ proportions. His account was suddenly blessed with 116,000 new followers, in a single day. Prior to that, Romney’s follower count was only growing at a rate of 3-4,000 a day.
Buying Twitter followers may not be wrong, but to what end? Dara Kerr of CNET suggests that Mitt Romney did that as a way of trying to match Obama’s social media popularity, at the time.
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If you are on Twitter then you’ve probably seen this magical act happen before. Where someone whose account has 150 followers suddenly turns up with 1000 the next day, and you know they didn’t spend all night following people and asking for follow backs.
This doesn’t raise dust when it concerns mere mortals like us. But in July 2012, Presidential aspirant Mitt Romney experienced a scandal of ‘Twitter’ proportions. His account was suddenly blessed with 116,000 new followers, in a single day. Prior to that, Romney’s follower count was only growing at a rate of 3-4,000 a day.
Buying Twitter followers may not be wrong, but to what end? Dara Kerr of CNET suggests that Mitt Romney did that as a way of trying to match Obama’s social media popularity, at the time.
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