Fake Conservative Chicks on Twitter, Example #1

OK, I know there are fake twitter accounts out there all over the place, but this one was so absurd it I just had to call it out.

I recently have added a number of twitter followers, courtesy of my current top-rated tweet for the #tcot hashtag right now, "top conservatives on twitter" - for a tweet noting, quote, "prop 8 calif. federal judge was appointed by that crazy liberal Pres. George HW Bush!!! #tcot #prop8." I know, I'm a master of English prose, right?

Anyway, one of these new followers is an alleged conservative chick, LaurieT333. With a suitable avatar photo of a fairly attractive young female, "Laurie" describes herself as "Raised in horseback country. I'm a conservative girl who can shoot, vote, and think for myself - which pisses off liberals."




The most intriguing thing about LaurieT333 is that she never sleeps. Just scrolling back through her posts in the last few days, she just keeps posting and posting with never a break of more than 2 or 3 hours. She never posts a personal opinion about anything, just a conservative talking point with a link to some crazy article.

Below is a sample of her tweet posting times for Fri-Sat August 6-7, 2010 (all times are Central Standard Time, or Eastern Daylight Time). She often posts a number of tweets at a time, but this clearly shows that LaurieT333 has no time to sleep, eat, shit, or do any of the fun things most attractive young American females are doing when the rest of us ugly geeks are arguing politics on the internet. And even so, the rest of cannot tweet nonstop.

Its so pathetic that some conservative operative groups have to resort to such blatant hoaxing. No doubt LaurieT333 gets a good smattering of conservative dudes to follow her (she has 280 followers so far, and its a relatively new account it appears). It's like Twitter blow up dolls, go figure.

I would love it if someone could track down the source of the avatar photo, like Media Matters did in the bizarre Kevin Pezzi episode last week (scroll down to the "astroturfing" section of that link to see what I am referring to).

How many of these fake conservative twitter accounts are there? If the expose of the right-wing scheme to corner Reddit that came out last week is true, I bet there are tons.

Sat Aug 6
23:59
22:14
21:24
21:17
20:44
20:18
19:21
19:18
19:06
18:47
17:50
17:48
17:14
17:05
16:50
16:19
15:48
15:24
14:47
14:16
13:46
13:17
12:53
12:44
12:15
12:01
11:51
11:45
11:20
10:15
9:57
9:14
8:14
7:46
7:24
6:13
5:14
4:55
2:28
1:48
1:27
0:52
0:27

Fri Aug 6
22:45
22:15
21:46
21:21
18:59
18:47
18:16
17:48
17:16
16:58
16:45
16:17
15:49
15:28
15:16
14:56
14:52
14:24
14:00
13:50
13:33
13:22
13:04
12:54
12:51
12:20
11:52
11:29
11:16
10:58
10:31
9:58
9:45
9:21
8:57
8:18
7:56
6:19
4:30
4:15
1:47

Thurs Aug 5
23:57