{"id":303105,"date":"2010-02-10T07:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloggingbeirut.com\/archives\/1683-guid.html"},"modified":"2010-02-10T07:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:40:43","slug":"humor-choose-a-mayor-of-the-lebanese-tweeple-updated-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303105","title":{"rendered":"Humor: Choose a Mayor of the Lebanese Tweeple (UPDATED) (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <strong>DISCLAIMER: this blog post compares reality to virtual reality, from a purely anthropological perspective: Do people behave differently in virtual communities? This blog post is NOT about the election results! Please keep it civil in the comments section (we don&#8217;t delete comments)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the upcoming Municipal Elections in Lebanon, the Lebanese Twitter community has chosen to elect its own Mayor&#8230;  And yes, as you can imagine, even in a virtual community of loosely coupled individuals, there&#8217;s elections drama, tension, ballot stuffing, et al.  Perhaps we are incapable of being civil, let alone elect intelligently and conscientiously?<\/p>\n<p>Yes We Tweet!    Vote for @Samerkaram<\/p>\n<p><em>My pledges:<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; Lower taxation on Tweets<br \/>\n&#8211; Implement a Tweet Stimulus package to encourage more Tweeting<br \/>\n&#8211; Invest in renewable energy Tweets for a greener Earth<br \/>\n&#8211; Close down Tweetanamo<br \/>\n&#8211; Fund the No Tweet Left Behind initiative<\/p>\n<p><em>how about posting more frequently on Blogging Beirut?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/twtpoll.com\/js\/badge.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/twtpoll.com\/badge\/?twt=jf3ovm&#038;b=1\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Polls have Closed: If you&#8217;re trying to make sense of the total number of votes (350), which is more than the entire Lebanese Twitter community, here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<p>Whilst observing the voting I noticed the following:<br \/>\n&#8211; Initially the vote tied at 50\/50<br \/>\n&#8211; Then overnight the other candidate gained a 4% lead<br \/>\n&#8211; The following day, the vote tied again at 50\/50<br \/>\n&#8211; And again overnight the other candidate gained a 4% lead<br \/>\n&#8211; etc.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting about these numbers is that in order to maintain the 4% lead, the other candidate had to increase votes ?exponentially? with every tie, as the total number of votes was growing (4% of 100 is less than 4% of 200).  This meant that in the last 4% round, the other candidate acquired 30 votes overnight!  Something smells fishy \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter mimics Reality! Even in the virtual world, our elections ethics are lacking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>DISCLAIMER: this blog post compares reality to virtual reality, from a purely anthropological perspective: Do people behave differently in virtual communities? This blog post is NOT about the election results! Please keep it civil in the comments section (we don&#8217;t delete comments)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=-2>tags: beirut, lebanon, yes we tweet, twtpoll, @samerkaram, @sdarine, mayor of the lebanese tweeple, humor, funny, elections<\/font> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISCLAIMER: this blog post compares reality to virtual reality, from a purely anthropological perspective: Do people behave differently in virtual communities? This blog post is NOT about the election results! Please keep it civil in the comments section (we don&#8217;t delete comments) In preparation for the upcoming Municipal Elections in Lebanon, the Lebanese Twitter community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}