Someone's Hijacked Rudy's Tweets!
By Joshua Levy, 11/21/2007 - 2:24pm

Blogger Blue NoVA subscribes to all of the candidates’ Twitter accounts, and today he noticed a doozy from the Giuliani campaign: “i wish someone from my campaign would actually use this,” “Giuliani” Twittered earlier today!

Clearly, since the Giuliani campaign hasn’t taken control of his name on Twitter, someone did if for him. It’s another example of how he just doesn’t care about online interaction.

It’s also pretty funny.

Note the second tweet on his page: “Sitting down to a nice bowl of frosted mini-wheats”! That was back in May though; he’s probably moved on to Corn Puffs by now.

This is the only case I’ve found of someone hijacking a candidates’ name on Twitter. Some candidates — like Fred Thompson, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, and Barack Obama — are fairly frequent twitterers. And as I noted in today’s Daily Digest, some Members of Congress are getting into the micro-action too. The other presidential candidates (aside from Giuliani) apparently own their names, but haven’t twittified.

Bill Richardson technically uses the service, but so far he’s only tweeted once:

richardson_twitter

Yikes!

Umm....

At the risk of being Rudy's online factchecker guy (see post below), I'm pretty certain this Twitter account was never owned by the Giuliani campaign.

The previous tweets are also clearly spoofs.

"Owned"

Yeah, it's clear he never owned this account. It's more that someone hijacked his name, and his campaign didn't have the good sense to take ownership of the account.

That said, is it somehow implausible that Rudy himself actually took the time to tell us what kind of cereal he had for breakfast? :)

@twitterspoofs

The Richardson looks likely to be a spoof too (profile photo of him with Saddam Hussein?).

Spoof tweets are amongst the best parts of Twitter, as any follower of @billclinton and @darthvader knows oh so well.

Giuliani Loses to Ron Paul in recent Zogby Poll

Here is an excerpt from Zogby.com Nov. 22:
"The blind bio question was also posed to a larger pool of 1,009 likely voters nationwide, including Democrats and independents, and Paul was the big winner among that universe of voters, winning 33%, compared to 19% for Giuliani, 15% for Romney, and 13% for Thompson."

"...The telephone survey, known as a “blind bio” poll because likely voters are given details of the candidates’ resumes without their names attached."

Will the media report this?

No

The reason they won't report this is because Zogby has a historically bad track record in their polls. Plus, the blind bio poll is meaningless. Last time I voted, which was a couple weeks ago, the only thing I saw on the ballot were names, and the details of a ballot issue that didn't even count because the proponents didn't gather enough signatures after a bunch were ruled invalid. When most people go to vote, all they'll see is a name, party affiliation, and if they are lucky, a one word description of their occupation (it varies from state to state).



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