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Gingrich Accused of Twitter Fraud

Juan Cole 08/02/2011

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Newt Gingrich has ten times as many Twitter followers as Mitt Romney, but it is being alleged that most of them are dummy accounts or are actually paid for.

In bizarro Gingrich-world, the popular revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt are a dangerous illusion, the Obama administration should have clung to dictator Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood is currently a violent organization, US ally Pakistan is the biggest threat to the United States in the long run, Iran is in the short run (because of its [sic] nuclear weapons), and Belgian colonialism in the Congo was nice.

In contrast, I [@jricole] have only a tenth the number of twitter followers as Mitt Romney
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But not only are mine real and genuine volunteers, they are all above average as to intelligence and looks.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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