Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Twitter shuts down 33 fake accounts created by state Republicans in an attempt to lambast Dems


Just as sleezy and lowdown as you'd expect. Follow the link to read of the R's whining that they got caught, and how it's all "satire" not dishonesty.

Barack Obama's victory last year left many Republicans bemoaning their party's ineptitude when it came to political exploitation of the Web. Democrats, they admitted, were far ahead in the art of using the Internet to seduce voters.

So Connecticut Republicans decided it was time to boldly forge into the 21st century, only to stumble when one of their decidedly deceptive experiments ran into trouble last week.

Twitter, Inc., shut down 33 fake Twitter accounts created by Republicans using the names of Democratic state representatives. The Republican scheme was to send out posts under the Democrats' names mocking the liberal tax-and-spend bastards.

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