Post: #1

Hillary Clinton the next president of USA through proven mass online fraud:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...tweet.html

Hillary is big on social media, especially with people who don't exist.

Sometimes they purchase blocs of phony followers outright; other times, their supporters cheerfully provide Astroturf for them. Manufactured approval isn’t limited to politics, either – there are plenty of sources out there who will sell you a pile of made-to-order five-star reviews to make your book, music, or other products look popular on consumer websites.

Limbaugh mentioned this while bringing up a UK Daily Mail story, largely unreported by American media, that a huge volume of Hillary Clinton’s Twitter and Facebook support comes from fake accounts. Some 2 million of her 3.6 million Twitter “followers” are non-responsive accounts that apparently exist only to plump up Clinton’s social media profile, and over 544,000 of them are clearly fake.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/04/15/hil...-real-ones

More than 2 MILLION of Hillary Clinton's Twitter followers are fake or never tweet – and she's already under fire for 'buying' fake Facebook fans
Two different online audit tools say no more than 44 per cent of Hillary's 3.6 million Twitter fans are real people who participate in the platform
The newly minted presidential candidate is fending off accusations that her Facebook page is full of fake 'likes'

http://www.adweek.com/prnewser/hillary-c...ers/112810

Post: #2

How does that 44% compare to, say, Obama, Trump, Sanders, Paul?

It should not be a surprise to anyone who has heard of BHW that people are paying for advertisement and status on the Internet.

Post: #3

This is common among famous people. Fake twitter and Facebook accounts that were created for sale will follow not only the people who bought the 'follow' but also a handful of other famous people in order to hide who paid for them. If I bought 10k followers on Twitter and they were all following just me you could point to me and call me a fraud. But if they all follow 20-30 people of varying degrees of fame you'd be hard pressed to say who paid for them.

Video explanation: https://youtu.be/oVfHeWTKjag

Post: #4

I'm not liking this trend of artificially propping up numbers to gain status. I mean just last week, Trump was basically called out for lying about having 15k people in a 4k max capacity room during his Phoenix visit. Does this factor into the media polls? That might explain why Hillary is a large margin above everybody else in the Dem polls for the longest time.

Post: #5

It's not just politicians. It's the media, too.

One of my former editors moved from DC to New York to edit a magazine. I followed her on Twitter, where she was barely active for two years.

Then she started gunning for a promotion. All of a sudden, her Twitter feed went from like 15 followers to almost 1,000 overnight. The media is actually pretty insular, so it's not like she made that many friends that quick. She definitely bought followers to look more popular.

By the way, she got the promotion, so this sort of thing does work.

Post: #6

Well , feminist Hillary Clinton, through our lack of action and our sleep, will be the next president of USA
and she has 44% real twitter followers, 56% fake twitter followers

Donald Trump, in comparison, has:

Post: #7

(07-23-2015 11:47 AM)lido Wrote:  Well , feminist Hillary Clinton, through our lack of action and our sleep, will be the next president of USA
and she has 44% real twitter followers, 56% fake twitter followers

Donald Trump, in comparison, has:

you can't stump the Trump

Post: #8

I wasn't aware that Facebook and Twitter accounts could cast votes.

Post: #9

(07-22-2015 12:05 PM)Legendver2 Wrote:  I'm not liking this trend of artificially propping up numbers to gain status. I mean just last week, Trump was basically called out for lying about having 15k people in a 4k max capacity room during his Phoenix visit. Does this factor into the media polls? That might explain why Hillary is a large margin above everybody else in the Dem polls for the longest time.

The 15K number is from those who couldn't fit into the main room... there were thousands in other rooms watching the speech via circuit cameras. He filled up the building's maximum capacity of 12K and there were still thousands more outside.

Instead of believing the bullshit you read on media websites, try using a bit of skepticism to see how true their claims are.

Post: #10

Quote:I'm not liking this trend of artificially propping up numbers to gain status.

You should see some of the notch count posts in the "Game" section here.

Post: #11

^^^ please don't feed the trolls!!

Post: #12

This is basically the internet version of hiring a bunch of temps to appear busy in your office for one day while you meet investors or business partners. I know reddit has some hate here, but there is a very informative youtube video by the creators of reddit talking about how they did this same type of thing to build up the user base. Basically all the employees created bunches of accounts with funny or hip names and spammed tech and news articles on the site. People started populating the site because it appeared there was already a large population of quality posters.

Post: #13

How will this tilt the election? There will be voter fraud I am sure but this is not it.

Post: #14