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since u have a blog u write in, u should at least consider the main and basic step in writing about an subject which is objectivity ... so plz try to know more about this election b4 writing about it.
1st of all it is for fun and has no relation with the upcomming election coz 80 % of us will not vote and dont care about this election 2nd @sdarine & @samerkaram are rl frd and this election was for fun as the #THTH u should have a look on it 3rd as for the percentage and the waaaaw 4% u noticed with ur highly intelligent brain and about the nb of people who vote ill explain more to let u have a bit extra knowledge about the subject u r writing about people who vote are not only Lebanese all the tweepole of each side voted even if they r not from lebanon some of them are from dubai, jordan, .... and they visit us in lebanon to hang out as for the 4% issue we should investigate about it what do u think do u realize that after the virtual election has finished we prepared a tweetup and we will meet all together as if this election didnt happened :) but let me be honest with u i like the way that u used to "tsayes" the subject indirectly and thank you for ur 0% truth article that u wrote except the waaaaw 4 % observation :D
walid, this isn't about the outcome, but about the method.
some people would argue that the end justifies the means. this is very common in certain cultures, one of which happens to be ours. i am not faulting the community, nor the participants or the incumbents, i am simply observing that ballot stuffing transcends the real world into the virtual world, even when the election is fake. perhaps the ballots were stuffed because it was fake, but either way it's an interesting social phenomenon. there are no winners and losers in this election, and the outcome will not affect the dynamics of the community - that's a given.
Is this comment for fun?;)
I mean apart from the fact that finkployd is one of the candidates? :P
it is true that this election was for fun, but we were trying to be serious about it
now i was one of the participants in this election, and i can tell you that i was one of the tweepole who enjoyed sending DMs to encourage them to take it seriously and vote and i can also tell you that the majority of those DMs i sent through night sincei have work through the day ... we all have works at the end and that is why some of the tweeple were voting through night perhaps this is y teh voting were low through the day in addition, i have some frds on my twitter acc from Dubai who liked the idea and voted for there candidate it is true that we were having fun in getting votes .... but it wasnt neither a competition nor real election and that is y we didnt need to stuff the ballots so y u insist on the fact that ballots were stuffed this election wasnt for Lebanese Tweepole only, it was for all the tweepole whom we have. if it was like this we couldv made it in a way that the IP adress from outside lebanon cant vote .... but we gave the opportunity for every one to participate
it's all about the patterns walid.
when votes come in 'odd' patterns - there's generally a concern over the legitimacy of the votes :) that's how fraud is detected in real world elections.
This shows:
1- Someone has taken this too seriously. 2- The guy behind this blog is not happy with the fake election results. 3- He knows nothing about twitter and how networking works because we were RTing each other and a million ppl could have voted from outside Lebanon, not to count the votes that were made from various places, meaning @SamerKaram could have voted for himself from work, home, starbucks, Turkey, or any other place in the world during the 5 days. 4- Monitoring all this, I had noticed Darine being in the lead and suddenly Samer going up 29 votes in 10 minutes (as accurate as the 4%) which means we know where it started, but obviously never worked. 5- Seriously, is this for fun? I second what Perplexed has just posted!! We have a brain, u know.
i love when some one numerate his comment :)
nicely done :P at the beginning when i didnt know who wrote this article, and now after knowing i feel that it is more silly :D so man no comment from my side any more :) hahahahh really silly
thank you for reinforcing my 4% observation, and then for admitting fraud by stating "we know where it started, but obviously never worked".
whoever started it, knowing that either candidate could have started it since all evidence is anecdotal, does not excuse the other party from participating in the fraud. what is more interesting though, is that it appeared that one party was encouraging a tie and the other was insisting on a clear win - repeatedly so, as every time a tie came about, a sudden surge manifested on the other side. and to answer your question about seriousness, it has been repeatedly noted that this blog post is not about the outcome but about the method, and about the learning we can take away from these 'virtual elections'. the only people taking this seriously are those, like you, who are defending parties and vote strategies, rather than enjoying a bit of critical assessment of a clearly flawed process that could potentially lead to a better understanding of virtual community dynamics. this really is nothing more than a curiosity, so let it be and stop being so defensive.
Dude! Lighten up :P seriously.
You're giving it too much thought. I've included both you and me in the "we" I mentioned, I'm not that far away, I'm in Lebanon too. I never said the other party, whoever that is, participated in fraud. Maybe that amount of people actually voted. Who knows. All I'm saying is I noticed those 29 votes between 2 simultaneous logins within a 10-minute timeframe after I had checked the results and someone popped up and said 50/50. So I guess it's when the virtual fraud started. Whoever carried on obviously counter-attacked... I don't care. Because: 1- what's in it for any of you winning the title? 2- whoever initiated this idea is as silly as can be, we don't need a mayor, we carried on for fun. 3- Twitter is where I get away from politics and corruption so I'm not gonna have a mayor doing speeches and announcing stuff on my timeline. De quatre: better luck to both candidates next time, try running for mayor on Google BUZZ, it's trending now.
Just read the blog and comments. Don't know what happened, but I thought it was a fun thing we were doing!
I participated from Dubai as have been visiting Beirut a lot and know both candidates. I didn't think it was supposed to be that serious... Yalla guys, enough crazy things happen outside of twitter. Let's keep this as our sanity place and con tinue being one big family :-))
it wouldn't be a proper election without post-election fallout - w mouzaharat w fer2ay3 hehe
keeping it civil is paramount :)
ur funny
the total number of votes 182+153 is 335 .. so ur bad at mathematics its not big deal but im sure twitter has more than 350 users in Lebanon much more about elections well you win some and you loose some not accepting the results and objecting is the uncivilized act this is all we are good at objecting over and over again this ended and u still wanna talk bla bla bla
More importantly, i feel that the use of Adsense to shove "lebanese girls" advert in my face - TWICE, on the right and under the main post...(quite sure they're actually the same ukranians used for every country) detracts from the high level intellectual debate and mathematical discourse we are having here
I agree with the manifesto particuarly the tweet stimulus package. In addition, please furnish all empowered twitizens with blackberry or iphone so that we can continue tweeting whilst sitting right next to each other I can't tell you the amount of times i've actually had to make real conversation with Samer and Ayman because a few tweets of theirs were left unanswered, therefore leaving them with restless thumbs and therefore having to use their voiceboxes to communicate. The next big cause celebre, should be tweeting for silence, especially policemen, who constantly bother us with their "ERRIB Ya MAZDA!" shut up and tweet is what i say furthermore, sending a twitter klaxon over a gps / geo locatable smartphone will be not only more environmentally and aurally friendly as the sound levels in beirut will drop, but will encourage more people to use twitter. something which will be dear to the mayors heart as he expands his empire :-) All the best, from a loving constituent.
you know those Lebanese girls pay my hosting bills :) allah ykhalleeyon ;)
as for the inattention comment, i would like to remind you that i could not finish a SINGLE story on Wednesday evening - i mean i was even stopped mid-word and remember how that came out to be? otherwise, i think you're onto something - the government is much like twitter, politicians tweet, policemen tweet, and some people follow while the majority follow Oprah...
Hey Guys.
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