Alvin Greene takes to the Twittersphere

"Last night, yours truly received a somewhat unexpected email: "Alvin Greene is now following you on Twitter!" Wait, seriously? The Alvin Greene, as in the come-from-nowhere Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina?

That message was followed up by a warning to his opponent, GOP Sen. Jim DeMint: "Look behind you @JimDeMint, I'm gunning for your seat in NOv!! You are a bad man." A message posted shortly after 1 am Tuesday morning asked whether DeMint is a racist and linked to a DailyKos article pondering the question. Strangely, many of the account's messages have been tagged with the Twitter hashtags for the Tea Party.

As of this morning, the Greene account was following 286 people, including his opponent, GOP Sen. Jim DeMint, President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, GOP Rep. Ron Paul and Florida GOP Senate hopeful Marco Rubio. He's also followed a handful of journalists, including myself, CNN's Peter Hamby (who has been covering the South Carolina race), GQ's Ana Marie Cox, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Salon's Alex Pareene and two Washington Post bloggers, Ezra Klein and Greg Sargent.

But here's where it gets suspicious: The account also follows about a dozen porn spam bots, as well as a self-professed Twilight super fan—not that there's anything wrong with that. And the site lists Greene's Wikipedia page, as opposed to an official campaign site, as his web page. That doesn't seem like something an official candidate would do, but then again, we've seen stranger things in the Greene/DeMint race."

—Holly Bailey is a senior politics writer for Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100624/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2826

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rocktivity

Stretching his tweets to 140 chars?

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I doubt he could even turn a computer on now he is on Twitter!