"We did not find a similar pattern in Barack Obama's recent followers. "<p>Why would you expect the patterns to be remotely similar? Obama has been the President for over 3 years. Romney has been a presidential candidate for a few months.<p>"Our test is based on the underlying assumption that the followers of Twitter accounts tend to display a some kind of general indegree distribution."<p>Unwarranted assumption. It could be that many new people are joining Twitter JUST to follow the Romney campaign.<p>"Selected the twenty accounts closest in size to both Romney and Obama,"<p>I'm not sure why anyone would consider this a valid sampling technique.<p>"The median number of followers for Romney's new followers was 5, whereas the median for the comparison group was 27. This represents a stark, and statistically significant difference. If you are a statistics nerd, like us, you might want to know that the p-value on this was 0.0000. "<p>Not if the "comparison group" is completely bogus.