 "Four more years: Obama's tweet is most retweeted ever")
The US President has been re-elected in the 2012 election and shortly after Obama tweeted “four more years”. This has become not only Obama’s but the most re-tweeted tweet ever. Currently its been retweeted some 271,880 times in just about half an hour.
This isn’t all. According to BuzzFeed ,Obama’s tweet thanking the public for the election victory is on its way to become number 2 spot for most re-tweeted. Check out the Tweets below:
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/266031293945503744
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/266031293945503744
This has also been the most tweeted US election in history with nearly 20 million tweets. Check out the tweet by Twitter Gov confirming this here.
https://twitter.com/gov/status/266016146204000256
Meanwhile, according to an analysis byBarracuda Networks, it seems that President Barack Obama has more Twitter bots, aka fake accounts/automated accounts following him than Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Obama currently has22,198,016 followers on Twitter, while Romney has only 1,764,376 followers.
_ Wired _reports that the analysis looked at the200,000 most-recent Twitter followers and found that Romney has 31.7 percent fake accounts/bots following him, while Obama had 42.6 percent bots as followers on Twitter.
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Screengrab of Obama’s Twitter page.[/caption]
The report goes on to say that_Twitter bots are part of the price of internet fame._ Since Obama already had a huge following on Twitter, Twitter ends up suggesting it to the bots which end up following his account.
_Wired_even posted an eBay link of how followers can be bought on Twitter. Check it out here.