The news that this account was fake first broke on Friday. That's when Jason Ding, a researcher from security vendor Barracuda Networks, published a study on Barracuda's blog that quantified how bad the fake account problem is for Twitter including releasing the name of that fake account.
Date: Aug 06, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Mitt Romney suspiciously gets 116K Twitter followers in one day
"We believe most of these recent followers of Romney are not from a general Twitter population but most likely from a paid Twitter follower service," Barracuda Labs research scientist Jason Ding wrote in the report.
Date: Aug 06, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
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