Republicans Following Porn on Twitter (NSFW)

This is exactly why I don't read SF weekly anymore, where is the story here?

Hello thar, Intarnet here, I'm sorry you don't understand how I work, I thought we were good friends. Just wanted to let you know there are things called "bots" online, and these "users" aren't actually real people. Have you never had spam in your life? Do you think that Liberals don't have these. Research fail.

Hey sexy, I'm your biggest fan, thanks for following me on twitter!

Hey there IS YOUR PENIS TOO SMALL CUZ I KNOW IN 5 EZ STEPS TO MAKE BIG!

@ henry Bernard:

Where is the story? Are you serious? This is a group of people that claims to hate anything not Family oriented. Pr0n is not family oriented. This is a group of people that claim what I do in my bedroom behind closed doors is indecent. Yet, they are more than willing to watch acts that are normally behind a door (and if not on a screen are considered indecent). It's pointing out yet another strand of repuglican hypocrisy.

Critical thinking is a good thing. Take a beginning logic class.

Jayson and Henry you are both overreacting.

The story isn't about some Republicans who follow porn stars on twitter.. and are somehow contradicting themselves.

The point is they obviously don't devote very much time or discretion in who they recruit as their followers etc. It's just simple laziness. They probably pay someone to set up the thing (with our tax dollars & campaign contributions). They don't run it, their aid does and they just autofollow anyone who follows them.

That's the real story, which is more of just a laugh at their expense. No big deal either way.

This is F-grade muckraking. I believe in the hypocrisy of the republican party BUT:

A Twitter exploit existed until a few months ago that allowed users to force others to follow them. You could tweet 'accept [username]' to get any user to follow you.

The way scammers cash in on these exploits is to use them to push pr0n, male enhancement pills, webcams, etc.

Can we really blast the @CAGOP for not noticing this when they have 4000+ followers?

@ Jason

We have a budget crisis going on, and this is what SF Weekly is reporting on. All this is a a bunch of unnecessary muckraking. Can't this guy find something better to report on.

@Bryan.

Thank you for pointing out the following:

"A Twitter exploit existed until a few months ago that allowed users to force others to follow them. You could tweet 'accept [username]' to get any user to follow you.

The way scammers cash in on these exploits is to use them to push pr0n, male enhancement pills, webcams, etc.

Clearly he did not do his research.

I wonder how many strippers and sex workers follow Obama and the Democrats?

How many of them auto follow everyone that adds them?

It's one thing if you can drum up a bunch of @ replies in twitter showing a conversations... and that still doesn't mean very much.

Show me a tweet that is legit that a conservative leader openly sent to a call girl that says "I"m coming over to your hotel to fuck" and you still don't have anything. You sure it's a verified account?

Twitter means very little.

Internet is right: This is a TOTAL research FAIL. Too bad 70 year old politicians know more about how the Internet works than Joe Eskenazi. Just like fat disgusting people can wear thongs at the beach Joe Eskenazi has a right to blog ... but should he? Do you think maybe Joe Eskenazi was planted here by the republicans to make liberals look bad about their poor understanding of Twitter, Social Network, and the Internet in general? There is no reasonable explanation for this.

Joe Eskenazi is absolutely the worst blogger off all time. I hope he doesn't delete my comment. This guy is a complete waste of skin. How does he even have a job?

Not surprising
Considering how enthusiastic they are to engage in and rationalize torture
I'm sure that many of them get off sexually on that kinda stuff

Yes there is spam all over Twitter and Facebook. Get over it.

If you want obscene see the current contra costa GOP web site

http://www.contracostagop.com/home_page0.aspx

that can only talk about Tom Del Beccaro who is running for CAGOP Chair has his own quite checkered reputation. It's not about GOP candidates in tough races, it's not about GOP response to Contra Costa going to hell in a hand cart, it's not about cities raising taxes instead of cutting taxes and gold-plated salaries and pensions, its' about Tom. Here's an excerpt

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