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Subject Rachel Maddow has been using phony twitter accounts to boost her "mentions" on the popular website.

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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1193674:MV8yMTU1ODc1XzM2NDM3MjAxX0NBQjYxMEU=]
More to the point, either she or the network probably hired a team of people to set that up, rather than Madow doing all that work on her own.

I hate to say it, but in this case...

So what?

It's advertising. Slipped into a format that people think of mainly as... Well, advertizing and spam anymore, with a few witty remarks and pictures of cupcakes people saw in a shop somewhere.

Honestly, I can't see this one as a problem. She was (or her people, with or without her knowledge) were getting her name out there. Is it a lie?

Well, I can't say that I like the underlying morality of that kind of thing, but they don't say "Oh, this totally isn't Rachel Madow saying this" or anything like that, and people can have hirelings and thousands of Twitter accounts if they want, under different names even.

That's provided that it's actually what the man in the article thinks. (I didn't read it. Lazy right now. Frankly I don't think the issue has legs, so can't be bothered to spend that much time on it. I type really fast, and this five minutes or so is what this is getting from me today.)

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Original Message A poster on Twitter, upon seeing what he thought were very similar posts referencing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's show, did some searching and found out that Maddow has been using phony twitter accounts to boost her "mentions" on the popular website.

As can be seen by screenshots collected by a tweeter named @LeftyBollocks, Maddow has massive amount of accounts posting the exact same claim that "Confession: I yell at my TV while watching Rachel #Maddow talk about filibuster reform in the same way most people do during football."

With so many supposedly unique accounts mentioning her name, the term #Maddow has quickly risen to the top of trending topics on twitter-something @LeftyBollocks found odd since her show has so few viewers.

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