Mitt Romney admits having secret Twitter acc to 'see what's going on'

In a bizarrely embarrassing revelation, former Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's secret Twitter has been revealed on Sunday, as per international reports. Reports state that in an interview with a leading US magazine the Utah senator admitted that he had a secret Twitter account under the name - 'Pierre Delecto' to follow the US political developments. When confronted by another journalist, Romney reportedly admitted saying, "C'est Moi" ("It's me").

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Mitt Romney's 'Delecto' secret

In course of the interview, Romney has reportedly revealed that he followed 600-700 people. Romney added, "I follow a lot of people as a way to keep up with the news and I, you know, followed 600 or some odd people, 700. Just a way to have a private account to see what’s going on," in the interview. Romney has reportedly followed many famous celebrities, athletes, late-night TV comedians including - Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy  Kimmel. Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert commented , "  I have a bone to pick with you, sir."

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How was his secret revealed?

When the journalist was interviewing the Utah senator- who is a open-critic of US president Donald Trump, said that he retaliated to Trump's incessant tweeting by reportedly using 'a secret Twitter account'. He added that  he did not follow Trump using his account. The Journalist then launched into a Twitter research and found Twitter user @qaws9876, known as Pierre Delecto had been made private, post-interview, by scouring through Romney's Romney's grandchildren's Twitter accounts. The Twitter account was first created on July 2011, a month after Romney announced his unsuccessful presidential bid. The twitter account reportedly only tweeted a handful of times, all in reply to other tweets.

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Twitter was merciless to Romney's creepy behaviour:

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