Gingrich emerged that night looking bigger than King, bigger than everyone on stage, and he won the primary.
But in August, an anonymous former Gingrich staffer told Gawker that the vast majority of those followers were fake.
Of course, the incentive for the Gingrich team would be not to delete the phony accounts.
In fact, earlier that year, Gingrich became the first major presidential hopeful to announce his candidacy via Twitter.
Gingrich is not exactly wearing rainbow spandex, but his position definitely shifted.
