Fairweather Facebook friends abandon Mitt Romney

by Charlie Smith on Nov 11, 2012 at 11:26 am
Mitt Romney was losing followers at 847 per hour after the election.

There's a new metric for measuring how people suck up to power—and for how fast followers abandon ship when that person no longer becomes useful.

According to mashable.com, they're dumping Republican presidential candidate as Facebook friends at an alarming rate.

"Since 11:30 on Tuesday, more than 55,025 users have unliked the Massachusetts Governor, at a rate of about 847 an hour," mashable.com states.

Even George W. Bush couldn't claim numbers like that after leaving office.

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trawlz
Nov 11, 2012 at 4:22 pm
im no mitt supporter, but this image shows he has 12,048,763 friends. 55,025 accounts for about 0.4 percent of that number.
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greensea
Nov 11, 2012 at 10:22 pm
Now down to 12,442,666 as of 10:21 pm - dropped three more in the time it took to refresh . . .
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Bored
Nov 12, 2012 at 6:21 am
everybody on facebook is fake and their friends are even more fake.
all it measures is how fake you are
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blueheron
Nov 24, 2012 at 9:50 pm
The trauma of losing 'likes' and invisible Mark Zuckerberg-style 'friends' must be absolutely crushing.

Charlie, I'm beginning to worry about you...:)
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