Check out the Twitteraudit yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf this is how he runs his Twitter account, imagine what he’ll do for the voter rolls!<\/p>\n
“But wait, Merg!\u00a0 Lots of people, yourself included, have lots of spam followers on Twitter!\u00a0 I mean, look at how popular you seem to be with 18 year old Filipinas!”.\u00a0 Spam followers are certainly an issue on Twitter – everyone’s got ’em – but having one’s number of overall followers multiply by almost two orders of magnitude in less time than it’s taking me to type about it is not just the sign of some staff intern getting happy fingers on the “Follow!” buttons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But Merg!\u00a0 Maybe Simon’s account was hacked!”.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 Show us the evidence that a “malicious” “hack” just happened to inflate a less-than-popular candidate’s numbers into Twitterverse regional A-lister levels, and we can talk.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I’ll wait.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But I’m not going to hold my breath, if it’s all right with you.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Hey – maybe Channel 5 will cover this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DFL Representative Steve Simon is running for Secretary of State against GOP endorsed candidate Dan Severson.\u00a0 He’s had kind of a rough race so far; during the primaries, he came in with barely over 40% of the DFL vote, against a perennial candidate (Dick Fransen, who’s sort of a downmarket Ole Savior)\u00a0and an unknown.\u00a0 He’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47205"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47228,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205\/revisions\/47228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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