Devin Nunes sued a parody account with about 1,000 followers. Here's how many it has now

[babylonsister]

Call a whaaaa-ambulance!


Devin Nunes sued a parody account with about 1,000 followers. Here’s how many it has now | McClatchy
By Kate Irby
March 19, 2019 02:34 PM


In suing two Twitter parody accounts for defamation, Rep. Devin Nunes amplified their audiences.

One of the accounts, known as Devin Nunes’ Cow, saw its followers on Twitter swell from just over a thousand to more than 135,000 in less than a day after the Republican congressman from Tulare announced his lawsuit on Fox News.

The anonymous writer behind the account continued to taunt the congressman. In one post, the author wrote, “Do process servers visit dairies, or will it come in the mail?”

Nunes filed his lawsuit in Henrico County, Virginia early Tuesday. He’s seeking more than $250 million from Twitter, a political strategist who is critical of Nunes on Twitter and the anonymous users behind the parody accounts, arguing the tweets damaged his reputation and were responsible for his narrower-than-usual win of his congressional seat in 2018.


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[awesomerwb1]

1. Over 160 thousand followers now

[riversedge]

2. I had followed the cow account for a while. many posts are a good laugh.

[hatrack]

6. Now up to 167,000 in, what, 20 minutes?

[chia]

40. I followed Devin Nunes' Cow when the numbers were around 35K - highlight of my day,

thinking about what this is doing to Nunes' head.

[lagomorph777]

54. Another great idea for an account name: "Devil Nunes' Head"

[HubertHeaver]

60. as of 12:35 CDT, 413,000 followers

[happybird]

3. Now who could have predicted that

besides everyone except for Nunes, apparently.

[RockRaven]

4. There is also more publicity for or new creations of "NunesDad" and "DevinNunesCock"

amongst others...

[edbermac]

5. He obviously didn't know about the law of unintended consequences.

[BobTheSubgenius]

20. Look at his fake news leak fiasco.

He probably STILL doesn't understand the concept of unintended consequences.

[tblue37]

38. Or the Streisand Effect.nt

[smirkymonkey]

7. Just followed.

Up to 168k.

Sucks to be you, Devin!

[CDerekGo]

8. be sure to follow Mom_Nunes as well

Or at least that's what it was 5 minutes ago

[CaptainTruth]

9. 171k followers now!

[Demovictory9]

41. 275k

[Initech]

10. I would be willing to bet $100 right now that John Oliver owns that account.

That sounds like something he would do.

[rpannier]

32. Whether he does or doesn't

You can be certain he will encourage all of us NOT to follow DevinCow... over and over again, he will encourage us not follow DevinCow. Because following DevinCow would be wrong. I went past a farm today and wondered how many Devincows were named Devincow in that field.

[handmade34]

11. 176,000

need 400,000

Link to tweet

[ffr]

14. 10 minutes, 3,000 more.

Won't take long for it to get there.

[mbusby]

12. Streisand effect...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

[ck4829]

15. Kevin Kruse thinks it should just be renamed the Nunes effect at this point

I think the professor might be onto something there.

[Thekaspervote]

13. Sues for defamation but supports the biggest liar and defamer ever. Nunes you are morally bankrupt

[handmade34]

16. yes

we should sue twitter for allowing trump to use it

[DarleenMB]

17. This is how the GOP

defines pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. LOL

[Blue_true]

18. Don't laugh.

Save your vocal cords. You may get to stand on a Washington street and laugh that fool out of town.

[Xipe Totec]

61. We could hand out Laughing Cow cheese wedges at his going away. nt

[Blue_true]

64. Wearing milkcow suits. Of course that idiot doesn't know what a milkcow looks like. nt

[George II]

19. Over 180,000 - I've been following the bovine for a while now.

[avebury]

21. How many followers does

Nunes have? Devin Nunes’ Cow is trying to get more follower than Nunes.

[handmade34]

36. cow has 215

nunes has 325... go cow, go!!

[hatrack]

39. 9:44 Central Daylight Time . . .. .

NunesCow @ 241K!!!

MOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pacifist Patriot]

46. As of 8:22 am, the Cow has 325,909 and DN has 393,815...

I'm thinking the cow could lap him today.

[AdamGG]

22. Nunes narrower than usual win in 2018 was due to cow parody account - YEAH, THAT'S THE TICKET

It has nothing to do with how he behaved in Congress, it was all about that Twitter cow account!

The party of personal responsibility.....

[Hokie]

27. Parody account with fewer than 1000 followerers at the time

Now it just topped 200k. Whey to go Devin!

[robbob]

50. Was that a typo or a cheesy pun?

And curd you please stop? 😁

[Hokie]

55. Cheesy dairy puns are now a cottage industry ;)

[robbob]

56. That's a gouda one!

Apologies to Chico Marx...

[Fritz67]

23. It gets better!

Just last year, Nunes sponsored the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act.

[babylonsister]

24. Bwhahaha! Nice catch!! nt

[Fritz67]

34. I thought so too.

As the link shows, it was Mark Sumner on Daily Kos who noticed that.

[rainin]

25. 200,000 hahahahahahaha

[Hokie]

26. Just followed the bovine NT

[Ilsa]

29. And growing. I Followed

Devin's Cow today.

Republicans have no sense of humor!

[Demovictory9]

43. devinnunesskin needs more follows too

https://twitter.com/devinnunesskin?lang=en&lang=en

[rainin]

48. Hilarious!!! I followed. 20K followers. Thanks!

[Mike Nelson]

28. +1

[rpannier]

30. I don't twit

But if I did, 'David Nunes Cow' would be one I would follow

[shenmue]

31. Moo

Moo

[Ponietz]

33. I follow Devin Nunes' Mom's Mom's Douchebag

[avebury]

35. I love this tweet:

Who is going to play Devin Nunes’ cow on SNL?


It has to be Kate McKinnon!

[sellitman]

37. Followed

That's funny stuff.

Devin's super power is his stupidity.

[Demovictory9]

42. lol

[barbtries]

44. i follow his mom.

Chris Hayes I think it was, interviewed the cow person. she said twice that she is a libertarian republican.
Liz Mayer is her name and Hayes introduced her as a republican strategist. i can't find it on youtube but it's on msnbc.com

[nolabear]

45. Trending now: #BeButter...😂

[demmiblue]

47. 335,000!

[NewJeffCT]

49. 350K now

including me

[underpants]

51. Henrico? I've lost track what the cow is about.

[TEB]

52. I support the cow

[MontanaMama]

53. Poor Devin.

Link to tweet

[appleannie1943]

57. He was cloned from trump's bottom cheek.

Neither one of them take responsibility for their own unpopularity and only know how to whine like a 4 year old.

[tclambert]

58. As of now, Devin Nunes at 395K followers, Devin's Cow at 399K followers!

[Yonnie3]

59. The cow now has 400k followers

Poor Devin only has 395k.

https://twitter.com/DevinCow/followers

https://twitter.com/DevinNunes/followers

[GoCubsGo]

62. Now up to 417K...

On edit: They picked up another 3000 followers in the past 5 minutes.

[Demovictory9]

67. Wow

[MsUnderstood]

63. I just joined the bovine resistiance

I logged into my never used twitter account and followed the cow! (also I live in nunes' district and I hate that he was re-elected).

Also there are some great tweets shown in the lawsuit he filed (along with a lot of whining by nunes--suck it up congress boy!!).

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/politics/nunes-defamation-lawsuit/index.html

[BlueFlorida]

65. The law of unintended consequences

Devin Nunes will always remain an idiot.

Any person familiar with social media knows how things go viral.

[miyazaki]

66. how idiot nunes has even ten followers... nt