Is Charlie Sheen Buying Twitter Followers?

Charlie Sheen must be laughing up his sleeve at Jen Doll and her "Unfollow Charlie Sheen" campaign. Jen wants everyone to unfollow Charlie on twitter. She wrote on the Village Voice blog:

"Watching Charlie Sheen flame out again has been amusing, in part, but, much like his porn stars, we've taken to hiding in the bathroom and cringing."

Jen Doll also appeared on ShowBiz Tonight to say: "You know, like everyone, like you guys, like the world out there, we're watching this man and we're watching him flame out and we're watching him have more and more people come and listen to what he's doing, laugh at him, enjoy what he's doing, tweet it out to the people they have as followers on twitter.", and to note that he has a "cadre" of people enabling him, which presumably includes all his twitter followers.

She also said the "unfollow Charlie Sheen" hash tag is now out there, so she thinks a little headway is being made and it could all eventually put an end to this incredible social networking phenomenon.

If Sheen didn't actually hear this report, someone must have told him about it because, all of a sudden, the very same word shows up in a tweet about the earthquake:

"Curveball; Warlock edict; pain & devastation in Japan demands us all to dig deep & LOVE THEM VIOLENTLY Dogspeed my cadres of the Far East! c"

How peculiar. But not half as peculiar as all the egg avatars on Charlie Sheen's twitter account. "Unfollow Charlie Sheen? Hello?" asks whether Charlie might be buying his twitter followers, and also notes the inordinate amount of followers who picked an egg for an avatar ("his account appears to be ovulating"). They are all new accounts with few tweets and 3 or less followers.

If you look at most "buy twitter followers" services, they guarantee packages of twitter followers and stagger them over a period of time, so Charlie may be getting some followers legitimately, but he must be getting the eggs from a paid twitter service.

It's eggstraordinary, to say the least.

The last reason Jen Doll gave for unfollowing @charliesheen was: "It's not even Charlie Sheen tweeting, anyway," to which she should add: "half his followers are eggheads."

If I was an advertiser, before paying anyone for their tweets, I would definitely take a close look at that follower list.

Sources: Embedded