Kyle Sandilands denies being a twit
July 7th 2009 22:49
He's brash, he's a judge on Australian Idol and he got his first job in radio after lying on his résumé about working with Triple M. In September 2006, he was named by Zoo Weekly as Australia's most hated identity. He's Kyle Sandilands, Australia's answer to Gordon Ramsay.
He is in the news again after being accused of falsifying his Twitter follower numbers. How low can a man go?
The accusation has been made by Leon Hill, who runs a social media marketing company called uSocial. Hill was widely quoted by news sources when he called Sandilands and his 2Day FM radio show co-host Jackie O "Twitter wankers" after their Twitter following increased by 30,000 in 18 hours.
Hill's initial comments that the new followers were fake were made after he analysed some of the followers and found that most had no photos and few or no updates. The ones that were updating were doing so "with either their name, or an illegible grouping of letters".
Hill said most of the followers of the Twitter account were fake and that Sandilands and O were using a script or computer program to "create accounts and then follow their own".
"In my professional opinion, something funny was going on," Hill said. "I've seen this stuff before and to me it's quite obvious. Since all the publicity has come out about this Twitter issue with Kyle and Jackie's account, their followers have ceased to increase at such an alarming rate."
Sandilands has responded by threatening to sue Hill for slander.
According to Hill, "He stated that he'd taken on bigger people than me and won so he would have no problem taking me to court. He also said that I should think about moving my money overseas just in case I had a `retarded kid' over here to support as he intended to ruin me.
"He was quite calm, but very offensive as we've come to expect from him."
On their show on Monday morning, Sandilands and Jackie O said they believed the massive increase in followers was due to the fact that they were placed on a "recommended list".
This post first appeared on my Salient Point blog.
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