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On December 06 2011 04:01 VirgilSC2 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2011 03:38 skeldark wrote:On December 06 2011 03:32 VirgilSC2 wrote:On December 06 2011 03:28 skeldark wrote:
so let me repeat what you said :
"lets SPAM together to make something we like more popular..."
what about writing emails to everyone in the world with a story of a African king so that we can collect money for esport?
This is possibly the worst analogy ever conceived, and everyone in this thread is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. One person sending 10,000 identical e-mails =/= 10,000 unique people sending one unique tweet. The idea is to spread the word about ESPORTS to people on Twitter who may not know that much about it. 1) you are able to rewrite something you read on the internet, congrats to this! it let you look very intelligent... At least you have one sentence with your own words. More than most other ... 2) so the idea is to advertise ESPORT by faking the twitter stats. Thats not really new, you call it SPAM. As good as the lets "vote up" on reddit. The goal is that more people who dont know about ESPORT know about it. So do you know how to make money without work? i want to bring this closer to you, pls pm my all your emails i will make sure your are on many spamlists so you get kind of unique mails form 10.000 people every day. It's not faking Twitter statistics if people are actually tweeting about it. JP is just asking people to tweet about it, same way Gary Danielson advertises tweeting with their #CBSFootball or whatever it is when I'm watching football on the weekends. It would be faking Twitter statistics if JP was asking people to make multiple Twitter accounts, and making multiple ones himself just spamming back and forth to eachother and retweeting himself hundreds of times. It's completely 100% legit to reach out to the community and say "Hey, let's spread the word and all tweet about this, the community already managed to get #GSL trending during the finals"
I really couldn't agree more with this and thank you for putting it bluntly so that even your average moron should be able to understand. It kinda saddens me to see the reaction some people have had to what JP suggested. Are some of you people honestly telling me that you are too lazy to hop on to twitter for 2 seconds and make a tweet about something you like/love? I mean I can only assume you have at least a small degree of love for SC2 or ESPORTS in general since you are posting on bloody TEAMLIQUID! Hilarious that you would take the time to make a negative comment about a good experiment like JP suggested but you don't have that time to do something that naturally brings attention to ESPORTS.
Now I am the first person who hates social media for the purpose your average young nitwit uses it for, but the one thing that I can't deny about social media is that it is a huge hub for drawing attention to things. Part of this reason is because so many people use it nowadays, how could something that's trending/being posted a lot NOT be noticed by a large crowd? And is this not a good thing if we want this industry to grow and become better? And on that note, I see absolutely no harm in making a quick tweet about the GSL or ESPORTS in general, and if you do see harm in that then I think you have a very poor understanding of the current world we live in. If you are going to take a stand on not doing something, then maybe you should spend that energy taking a stand on something that actually IS bad like oh, I dunno, animal cruelty or oppressive government regimes? And keep in mind I'm not telling anyone what specifically to care about or take a stand on, just saying maybe to rethink your priorities.
I for one will gladly hop on and make a tweet at the appropriate time, for it is all I ever really use my twitter account for anyway 
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Why not delay one or two hours? Then you would get most of Europe aswell? instead of just some.
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On December 06 2011 02:58 TORTOISE wrote:
Twitter might seem important to you professionals in the "scene," but to Joe Schmoe Twitter is a worthless website. I don't see the point.
Looking forward to SOTG, though!
Twitter tells me when my favourite players are streaming, informs me about upcoming tournaments and tells me the results of tournament games that have just finished. Best part is, if I dislike any of those things or want to use twitter for something else, I can follow different people!
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dont have twitter, but i support this
gl fellas
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On December 06 2011 04:20 xi Tempest x wrote:
Why not delay one or two hours? Then you would get most of Europe aswell? instead of just some.
It needs to be during the SotG broadcast, and I doubt they would move that back for a slight boost in an experiment.
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On December 05 2011 20:24 NoobStyles wrote:If anything shouldn't this just prove that twitter is basically useless? If 1000 tweets can get something trending worldwide then how may people are there actually using twitter? not may :-/ maybe we can save some time on STOG and not call out everyones twitter account every ep
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You don't know how Twitter works, do you? T_T; There are millions of people talking about all sorts of different things; trending topics are certain keywords that see a large spike in activity during a short period of time. Having an otherwise unmentioned topic (in this case, #GSL) suddenly spike ~1000% in the middle of the night (low traffic time) and become a trending topic isn't unreasonable, and certainly doesn't "prove" that Twitter is basically useless.
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On December 06 2011 04:26 Dujek wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2011 04:20 xi Tempest x wrote:
Why not delay one or two hours? Then you would get most of Europe aswell? instead of just some. It needs to be during the SotG broadcast, and I doubt they would move that back for a slight boost in an experiment.
There are a lot of Twitter services like Twuffer that allows you to schedule tweets. So if you really, really want to be involved in this experiment you can participate if you are sleeping  .
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Wow i spent a good few weeks drawing that for my Art course, never thought it would be the world's largest insect.
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Should be pretty easy. NASL was trending worldwide last night too.
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Ehh, why #ESPORTS? I bet you most of the people here only follow Starcraft and don't care about LoL, CS, SF4 or whatever (myself included)
Why not just #Starcraft instead?
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Great idea JP, can't wait to see what happens, gl on SOTG tomorrow
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proud to say, i'm the same bluemoonsc that tweeted the most about #GSL as brought up by the article http://latenightmarketing.com/gsl-trending-twitter-stats/ that made its rounds
needless to say, as someone on the east coast i was exhausted the next day running on only 5 hours of sleep after the excitement of the games wore off (something like 6 or 7 am). i have work tomorrow (im a teacher T_T), but you'll have the power of my tweets for as long as i can muster strength to stay awake. i'm still not totally caught up on sleep, though.
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On December 05 2011 20:16 itmeJP wrote:
nothing a couple of blue flamed hellion can't fix! LINE EM UP
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I don't know... why don't we just keep crashing TheHandsomeNerd.com? 
But in all honesty, I guess I will make a garbage twitter account if I have time during the show... and in fact I would encourage you to ask people to do so as well at the beginning of the show. Just say it can be a garbage account that they don't have to use for anything else. :D
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social experiment, pfft
you know these shows/people make their living off showing how influencial they are, being able to prove an audience
support e-sports and all that, but this is just a cleverly designed way to get at lot of free advertising >_>
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On December 06 2011 04:55 Chicane wrote:I don't know... why don't we just keep crashing TheHandsomeNerd.com?
Because we will do that anyways! :D
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I don't really understand why anyone cares if something is trending on twitter
Do you people ever look there except to see if GSL is trending?
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as for the bug, is that a new unit in hots?
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