McCain’s Twitter Strategy Maaaajorly Backfires

So McCain’s Twitter account was reeeeally close to 3 million followers the other day.

So whoever runs it (be it him or some staffer) decided to put out a call for more followers.

We’re only 74 Twitter followers away from 3M – spread the word & help us reach this big milestone!

— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) December 4, 2017

Oh boy… did this backfire quickly.

According to this:

John McCain suffered the wrath of Twitter earlier this week when he asked for more followers on the social network – only to lose thousands.

The Republican Senator for Arizona tweeted the appeal on Monday evening to help him reach the 3million mark.

But his ambitious request was met with an instant wall of hostility and the subsequent ‘#UnfollowMcCain’ campaign.

The protest movement was initially very successful with the senator losing nearly 20,000 followers overnight.

Many angry users attacked him for voting in favor of his party’s controversial tax bill last week.

Right. So the libs who decided McCain was going to be the hero that blocked every single Republican bill on their behalf were bitterly disappointed when he voted in favor of the Senate GOP tax bill (they even wished him excruciating death) and then were reminded they followed him on Twitter by this prompt. Not wanting him to get what he wanted (since they apparently REALLY want higher taxes, and won’t get that) they swiftly unfollowed him.

Here’s where it gets awkward. It looks like McCain went ahead and bought himself some fake followers to fill in for the old ones.

Two days later, however, the politician has seemingly recovered and surpassed his goal with 3,005,428 followers.

But the swift recovery after such a blow has caused many to question the authenticity of some of his new followers’ accounts.

Posting a screengrab of McCain’s follower list last night, Twitter user Deacon Blues wrote: ‘John McCain’s account has regained almost all of the losses from yesterday.

‘A random sampling shows almost all of them are accounts opened in Dec. 2017. Yup. Not a typo, Dec 2017 – This Week.’

John McCain’s account (@SenJohnMcCain ) has regained almost all of the 30K losses from yesterday. A random sampling shows almost all of them are accounts opened in Dec. 2017. Yup. Not a typo, Dec 2017 – This Week. pic.twitter.com/wFz52ptEtG

— Deacon Blues (@Phreaddie) December 6, 2017

Yeeeeeah… that’s a bit suspect.

Anyone who has a Twitter knows there’s a PLETHORA of “Buy Followers Now!” and “Thousands Of Followers – Instantly!” accounts that pester you for money….

Did McCain (or his social media manager) resort to that?

Is that really their priority now?