{"id":533510,"date":"2010-04-19T05:02:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=101004"},"modified":"2010-04-19T05:02:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T09:02:12","slug":"%e2%80%9cstupid-fight%e2%80%9d-measures-which-star-has-the-dumbest-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/533510","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStupid Fight\u201d Measures Which Star Has The Dumbest Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Stupid-Fight-For-Stars-Dumb-Fans-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Stupid Fight For Star&#039;s Dumb Fans\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-101005\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One very clever gent named Tom Scott <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomscott.com\/stupidfight\/\">has created an application<\/a> that can measure the average level of intelligence of a celebrity&#8217;s Twitter fans based on &#8220;stupid indicators&#8221; in their Tweets. <span id=\"more-101004\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;Stupid Fight&#8217; is not an exact science, but amazingly it seems to get it right most of the time! A lot of people on Twitter are stupid,&#8221; <\/em>Tom says. <em>&#8220;Many of these people follow celebrities and try to send them messages. Stupid Fight can&#8217;t go out and administer an intelligence test to each person that&#8217;s sending messages to a celebrity. So instead, it estimates based on several stupid indicators,&#8221;<\/em> he continues.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Are they using twenty exclamation marks in a row? Do they endlessly use the abbreviation &#8216;OMG&#8217;? Do they seem incapable of working out where their Shift key is? These indicators have a strong correlation with the message, and its sender, being stupid.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, are Lady Gaga fans smarter than Justin Bieber&#8217;s? Take a trip to StupidFight.com and see for yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/J-gfalDPhvBMfrO3hgm98zl-iFI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/J-gfalDPhvBMfrO3hgm98zl-iFI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/J-gfalDPhvBMfrO3hgm98zl-iFI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/J-gfalDPhvBMfrO3hgm98zl-iFI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One very clever gent named Tom Scott has created an application that can measure the average level of intelligence of a celebrity&#8217;s Twitter fans based on &#8220;stupid indicators&#8221; in their Tweets. &#8220;&#8216;Stupid Fight&#8217; is not an exact science, but amazingly it seems to get it right most of the time! A lot of people on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533510","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\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}