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progressivebydesign

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18. Absolutely to make him look more popular.

Reply to surrealAmerican (Reply #9)

Sun Jul 22, 2012, 07:52 PM

Jul 2012

His cracker jack tech/social media team got together over their Compaq desktop computers and decided that they needed to "hip" him up and bring up those numbers.

No way in hell he got 100k new followers overnight, unless the Mormon Church sent out a mass emailing to their members.

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