Twitter Suspends Romney Parody Account Just Before Speech

In a move that brings to mind Twitter’s recent suspension of Guy Adams (after he criticized Twitter advertiser NBC for its lackluster Olympics coverage), a Mitt Romney parody account, @MexicanMitt, was suspended last night – just before Romney gave his speech.

Where’s the similarity? #RomneyRyan2012 was a promoted trend last night – and promoted trends are not cheap.

Buying a promoted trend isn’t shady, of course – it’s smart. And according to Clickz, the Romney campaign was pretty proud of the “ad” buy:

“To trend for a day is a far more significant investment in resources,” than other Twitter ad buys like Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts, said Moffatt.

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