Aspiring Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was accused of buying thousands of followers on popular social media site, Twitter.

Since June 18, the Coalition's bet for Prime Minister of Australia in the coming September 7 elections received a 50 percent increase in the number of Twitter followers. Kevin Rudd, Australia's current Prime Minister and Mr Abbott's political rival, only saw a 14 percent increase of followers in his official Twitter account, as reported by the Daily Dot.

Within a day, the number of people following Mr Abbott on Twitter increased by 3,000. Mr Abbott's total number of Twitter followers was at 192,300 due to the increase. However, he lost 5,000 followers, bringing the current number of Twitter users who follow the Opposition Leader to 172,634.

Australian Labor Party leader and Prime Minister Rudd is an avid user of Twitter with 1.4 million followers. Social networking sites revolutionized marketing and campaign strategies of various businesses and organisations.

Due to the popularity of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, they have become vital to every politician's election campaign. All members of political parties were working hard to make their candidate's social media profile engaging to users.

In order to connect with voters, election campaign teams post campaign events, interesting facts about their candidate, informal photos while on the campaign trail and even memes.

Fake social media accounts can be purchased by those who want to take advantage of the popularity of social networking sites. News Corp. Australia investigated the increase in Mr Abbott's Twitter followers and discovered 99 percent of the supposedly "new followers" were deemed questionable.

Questionable Twitter accounts meant tweets were posted once or twice and mostly in different languages. Fake accounts usually did not have more than one follower. This left the conclusion that those were robot-spam accounts.

Mr Abbott and the Coalition denied any involvement in the purchase of fake accounts to increase Mr Abbott's followers on Twitter. The party promised to collaborate with social media sites to investigate the increase in fake accounts.

"Suppository of Wisdom"

Meanwhile, Mr Abbott attracted the attention of world media as the election campaign in Australia heats up. In a meeting with conservative party supporters, the Opposition Leader said in his speech that no one is "the suppository of all wisdom."

Mr Abbott told his audience with a straight face and appeared unaware of his comical error. Journalists who were covering the event and supporters of the Liberal Party were tittering in their seats as Mr Abbott went on with his speech in Melbourne.

Mr Abbott, usually an eloquent speaker, actually meant to say "repository" which means "a place for storage" rather than "suppository" which means medicine inserted in the rectum or anus.

He committed the "suppository of wisdom" mistake while he was attacking and criticising the reputation of Prime Minister Rudd for making decisions without consultation.

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