Tuesday, August 3, 2010

@PMHarper (verified) follows @freepornpics

It is sometimes interesting to see who people follow on twitter.

You have no real control who follows you, but those who you follow are selected (somehow) by you.

Now, in fairness, there are odd robots which force their way into twitter accounts -- there was a nasty racist who kept turning up as someone I followed on my account -- but if you pay attention those robots can be removed.

Anyway, I decided to scan who PMHarper (verified) - that means it's really Stephen Harper - follows.
It's a very odd list.

Perhaps a quarter are locked -- so maybe they are Conservative Party leaders in a special circle (and that's totally sensible). But many are pretty obscure and many haven't been live on twitter for months -- so there is no pruning of accounts.

And strangest of all -- PMHarper is following @freepornpics.

Now, does that mean the Prime Minister is downloading porn on his smart-phone? No, of course not -- but it does mean whoever is tweeting for him has something to answer for ... .

4 comments:

steve said...

Nice use of your time, there.

Anonymous said...

Guess he's lonely since L. moved in with that female mountie...

Anonymous said...

You should have gone a few pages further, it's also following a site called Wild Girls.

Why are Federal tax dollars being spent following porn sites?

Michael Watkins said...

Have documented this and written a little article on it; feel free to pass on to Liberal war room, journalists, and sensitive people of all stripes.

http://mikewatkins.ca/2011/04/08/twitter-pmharper-follows-freepornpics/