Comments on: Follow the “Truthy” Tweets to Find Twitter’s Political Spammers

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:07:32 +0000

I can’t get over the fact that Palin has her own reality television show. Can anyone have a reality show nowadays? And it is glaringly clear that she is using it to get more attention so she can have a shot at being president of the United States. The most chilling part is that with the way everybody idolizes reality stars, it’s just crazy enough to actually work. I’m not exactly an extreme liberal or anything, but I think anybody with half a brain on either side of the aisle should be able to tell why we wouldn’t want somebody like Palin being in charge of the greatest nation in the world (the USA!).

By: Adam Green

Adam Green — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:33:26 +0000

This is a part of Twitter in all areas. I work as a Twitter consultant and have found that bots produce the majority of tweets. It also shows that the work of astroturfing will probably get more sophisticated in the next election. Most Twitter spammers behave like email spammers, but everyone’s email isn’t available for analysis the way tweets are. Asotroturf won’t go away, it will just evolve to be less detectable.

By: Oracle Guy

Oracle Guy — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:27:11 +0000

Political operatives use deception? I am *shocked*, SHOCKED I tell you!

By: Tracy Murray

Tracy Murray — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:17:25 +0000

Here in Canada , there is word that newly elected Toronto mayor , Rob Ford , whose father is with the Conservative Party , and his campaign team operated a fake Twitter account , QueensQuayKaren , for four months before deleting it after his win .

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:07:55 +0000

It’s always the Republicans who have to resort to underhandedness to get their point across. In their Bible the phrase is “The truthiness will set you free”

By: anon

anon — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:40:57 +0000

Not that liberal tweets are talking points memos (cough cough)…