Friday, June 29, 2012

By the numbers | The lines on USAT's Twittergate

USA Today's unpaid sports handicapper Danny Sheridan is denying allegations that he paid to boost his Twitter followers to nearly 400,000 from only 11,000 just four weeks ago. Some key numbers:


number Twitter followers Sheridan claims


followers of USAT itself


followers of USAT Sports


followers of Publisher Larry Kramer


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1 comment:

  1. Jim Hopkins7/01/2012 6:08 PM

    Two days after I first posted on this subject, Sheridan's total followers have soared another 10%, to a current total of 424,672.

    Obviously, something very strange is going on here.

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