You might want to sit down before you read this: There’s good news today for Newt Gingrich.
The former House Speaker may be nowhere in the presidential polls, deeply in debt, and suffering snickers from observers who just watched him campaign in Hawaii but at least he’s got one thing going for him — he probably didn’t artificially pad his Twitter follower list.You may recall the mini-scandal: a former Gingrich staffer told Gawker that Gingrich — who’s made a big deal of his more than a million Twitter followers — actually paid people to up his list, giving him a big number of followers that’s mostly trash.
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