Sorry, Newt, But If Twitter Was A Primary, Sarah Palin Would Be The GOP Presidential Nominee

Yesterday we reported on the news that, despite his boasts, Republican presidential-wannabe Newt Gingrich’s 1.3 million Twitter followers are mostly inactive or fake (a lot of them were generated by Twitter’s much-derided Suggested User List, in which Gingrich is a recommendation), and many of them have been paid-for.

In this telling infographic, New York search startup PeekYou have taken a closer look at the Twitter profiles of Gingrich and other major Republican candidates to determine how many of their followers are real, bonafide human beings, how many are not, and how this places them in the race to be the GOP presidential nominee.

Amazingly, PeekYou determined that just 8% of Gingrich’s Twitter followers are real people.

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