You Are What You Tweet: 2011 in Review
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Damn!
All I got from this is I could earn a butt-load of cash from scalping Bieber….
^THIS. OH YES THIS.
It’s obvious that Rebecca Black (with her huge net worth) bought Bieber’s hair in an insane attempt to clone him and finally sing a duet with the purple bastard.
Entirely possible, since the original copy total denied any possibility of ever working with the talentless bit.
That would be a trio. Black, Bieber, and the purple bastard. They’ll be the Threebies (3Bs)!
wow. What the hell kind of person would spend $40,000 on a LOCK of HAIR?
Who else but the crazed, insane fan-girls who should be locked up in an asylum?
Pedobear.
Pedobear-ess.
Pedobear is equal opportunity! Don’t be hatin.
Didn’t even know Beyonce was pregnant. Huh.
Same here
Same.
Who, or WHAT is a Beyonce?
So I’m not the only one…
To be fair, the crucial, serious news *does* take priority on news channels and in papers. Personally, I can’t stand people putting insincere statuses about the latest tragedy. Social networking should be fun and light hearted, not a replacement news service,
^This, “Social” Media is social. If my brain were the news, the most important topic of the year would have been: “When is the next time I can masturbate?”
A great way to think about it. Thanks for the insight. I was starting to convince myself that I was a bad person.
Wow…further proof the bieber has to die
Humans are petty.
The lesson I take away from all this:
Find out where Justin Bieber lives, go there, take his garbage, sell it off piece by piece, retire at 37 and live like a king.
Alternate lesson: Find out where Justin Bieber lives, go there, take him hostage, cut his hair and sell it off piece by piece, retire at 37 and live like a king.
Alternate lesson: Find out where Justin Bieber lives, go there, kill him, cut him into hair + body parts and sell them piece by piece, retire at 37 and live like a saint.
You are the winner!
You my friend are a genius.
Well if you do that make sure to authenticate it…. also while your at it, kill him so the prices for his crap skyrockets…. and shave his head while you at it. (Not a big fan of JB)
You don’t say!
*writes this idea down.
Alternate lesson:Go out back to my own garbage bin, take some of it back inside, sell it off piece by piece as Justin Beiber’s, retire at 20 and live like a king.
Twitter is a _SOCIAL_ network. Not a news agency. Your entire premise completely fails to understand the purpose and intended use of a social network. It isn’t CSPAN, it isn’t CNN, it isn’t MoveOn, the Associated Press or PETA.
Just because a crescent wrench _can_ bang in a nail doesn’t obligate you to throw away your hammer and start driving nails with a crescent wrench. Twitter is not _intended_ to be a vehicle for social justice or news distribution. It is intended for _being social_. Just because you _can_ use it for social justice and news distribution neither replaces _REAL_ vehicles for social justice and news distribution nor condemns anyone who opts not to buy into a secondary, unintended usage of the tool.
More Americans might care about international affairs if the kinds of people who already do care weren’t such arrogant, self-important, narrow minded jerks who openly despise anyone who isn’t just like themselves. I’ve got news for you: I don’t use Twitter for news distribution or social justice and I never will and that does not make you better than me if you do. It just means you drive nails with a crescent wrench — something a professional would never do.
Grow up.
Methinks you need to pull that massive stick out of your arse.
With a crescent wrench!
winrar winrar chicken dinner
It says if, it does not state that twitter is the news once. You completely fail to understand simple sentences. Did you even read the article after that sentence?
how have you lived this long?
Mr. Jim John Marks, apparently you missed a few things:
1) The items cited are not all Twitter — or even social media. Google, for example, the world’s most commonly-used means of locating information, could hardly fit your crescent wrench scenario.
2) Since you clearly missed the point of the infographic, and likely didn’t read to the end, I’ll direct your attention to the summary paragraph at the bottom. Especially the parts in blue and orange text. You know, the part that points out that social media should be used for social… oh, wait, you know all about that.
3) Did you realize that you’re on a Cheezburger site? What are you looking for, a deep intellectual discussion? O_o
^This +3 internetz sir
Well, given that commenters here seem to be about ten times as intelligent as those of most major news sites on average, it wouldn’t be an unreasonable expectation.
^^^^This
Very well said good sir!
Haters gonna hate
the key word there, SOCIAL.
people socialise in different ways, wether that be through discussing irrelevant topics such as the pregnancy of Beyonce, or the breakdown of north african countries.(using examples from above)
Personally when I socialise with friends in Real life I like to debate/discuss current affairs/politics so forth, Does that mean I would be using Twitter in the wrong way, if i were to do it there? or is it fair to say you need to jump of your high horse, and see the humour in this post.
It is quite shocking how our priorities on what is deemed important are so messed up and jaded.
Your opinions smell like sh*t? Mine smell like strawberries. I guess I’m better than you.
What’s up with the iPhone hate recently?
Erm, NO ONE has yet spoken a critical word of what these facts say about people.
Also, the point of the twitter thing was not ‘what’s the years biggest news’, it was ‘what’s the years most discussed topic’.
ALSO also, these sites are not just AMERICAN. These are GLOBAL figures.
Also also, intended use =/= actual use.
Alsoalso, if you insist on getting all moralistic, what we use twitter for might not matter, but if I’m fighting for social justice and you’re not, (whatever the means) maybe that DOES make me better than you?
Not a shocker between young people’s greater use of social media and non-so-young people being so stressed and looking for entertainment. Meh.
Wuts a Beyonce? Too busy researching Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tweets.
I wonder how much one of Justin Bieber’s tampons would go for?
I know when I’m looking for serious news ab.out the world, Twitter is my f.irst stop.
But didn’t Rebecca Black donate a huge portion of her profits from “Friday” to Japan? I guess that’s not really too relevant to the infographic. Still, pretty interesting.
That’s nice and all, but that talentless, brainless sack of protoplasm and her white trash family shouldn’t be getting any money or notoriety. It makes for a sad day when someone like that can act like an idiot and get fame and fortune.
…as opposed to other pop icons? To me Rebecca Black illustrated the point that with sufficient publicity, even the worst of the worst can become rich and famous. The difference between her and “traditional” pop stars is that the publicity she got didn’t cost anything to anyone. WE made her rich and famous by OURSELVES, without her needing support from a major record label or Hollywood’s movie-making machine. People care more about “reality” shows than world politics, not only in the U.S., but all over the world, except in the places where they’re busy killing each other.
It’s also hazardous to talk about trends in networks that have grown as quickly as Twitter has, throughout the year. *When* something happened in the year can make a big difference. I wonder if these rankings would be different if they were given as portions of the active userbase at the time, rather than total tweets/searches. Cool research, though!
$1.2 million for a single 3-minute song she didn’t write and barely sang.
I love this planet and want to continue living here.
That 1.2M$ won’t buy her talent or happiness. Deep inside, she’ll always be the stoopid coont everyone loves to hate.
Money won’t buy talent or happiness, but it can go a hella long way towards buying her things that might make her happy and appear talented.
The East-Coast Earthquake garnered more tweets per second than Osama did. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/facebook-twitter-report-record-earthquake-messages/2011/08/23/gIQA4Y09ZJ_blog.html
I’m pretty sure I read an article saying that Steve Jobs’ passing surpassed Beyonce.
Well, I was just thinking of the huge numbers of children who Tweet, Google and use Facebook. Just as a child will always prefer cartoons to the news, it would be very unusual to have someone under the age of 14 tweeting about Muburak or referring to Obama’s speech.
And they probably out-tweet and out post most grown ups, actually.
Sooooo…
That could be part of the reason for the obvious skewing.
I heard that more time is spent searching stupid, albeit funny internet photos than cancer research. What a world. Then again, judging by the time at which this was posted, who the hell am I to talk? God I’m bored.
So the Australian floods and the New Zealand earthquake didn’t make the list either? The world DOES have another hemisphere!
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.