Newt Gingrich Accused of Buying Twitter Swag, Paying People to Follow Him

Is this the face of a guy who figured out how to win Twitter?

Fox News - Newt Gingrich, who is trying to rebuild his 2012 presidential campaign after his senior staff departed en masse, is now pushing back against reports claiming that most of his 1.3 million followers on Twitter are fake and that he paid for them. “At no time has the campaign or Gingrich Communications employed an outside group to inflate the number of followers of @newtgingrich,” Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said in a statement to FoxNews.com. “Any accusation of the kind is a lie, a smear and unsubstantiated.” Even though Gingrich is trailing most GOP contenders and potential hopefuls in the polls, he has by far the most Twitter followers at 1.3 million. Sarah Palin has more than 600,000, Mitt Romney, the presumed front-runner, has nearly 64,000. A social networking search firm called PeekYou, which says it began crunching the numbers for the 2012 candidates three weeks ago, confirmed that some 106,000 followers, about 8 percent, are real, according to the gossip website Gawker, which first reported the story. PeekYou analyzed the numbers after a former Gingrich staffer told Gawker that the former House speaker paid numerous “follow agencies” to set up fake accounts to follow him. “Newt employs a variety of agencies whose sole purpose is to procure Twitter followers for people who are shallow/insecure/unpopular enough to pay for them,” the staffer said.

Of course most of Newt's 1.3 million followers are fake, I mean the guy throws out tweets like, "Had a great lunch Mabe's Pizza-a Decorah landmark," or "The wrestling club had great brats and sauerkraut at the Mitchell County Fair," or my favorite, "Thanks to Rep. Josh Byrnes for guiding me around the Mitchell County Fair-hog show, prize winning cows, conservation booth, NRA...lots of fun."

Thrilling shit, Newt.  So I've gleaned that you like to stuff your face and hang out and country bumpkin fairs, probably dreaming of the 100's of kinds of different sandwiches that prize winning cow could be made into. I totally get why more people follow you than, say, Howard Stern, or even, yours truly.

PS: I had no idea you could just buy twitter followers, I'd have just done that from the start, been hovering around 50 for months now, shit is depressing. That staffer can go fuck himself if he thinks its because I'm insecure or unpopular, I know that can't be true, my mom drilled it into my head enough as a child. It's more about trying to win Twitter. I still haven't figured this shit out.  I got people like the Maestro who's sole purpose in life is to Tweet at sports reporters and about cute girls he sees on the street or in commercials, and yet he's dominating me in Twitter...Makes no sense.

Double PS: That's a real job? Making up fake twitter people for people who've hired you? How do I go about applying for that?