YOURSAY 'There is nothing to get excited over the number of tweets. We have had enough of malpractice and corruption.'
Phantoms hit Twitterjaya #Merdeka55 tweet-up
Anonymous_3e79: It is certain a sizable number of the tweets at the #Merdeka55 tweet-up was generated by Twitter bots. I am surprised that Umno leaders take the citizens for idiots.
Well, perhaps the citizens was asleep for the last 50 years or so. But now they are awaken to the new realisation that the ruling Umno-BN is a corrupt regime and an evil institution. It must be broken and punished.
Anonymous #21828131: There is nothing to get excited over the number of tweets. We have had enough of malpractice and corruption. We want change and that will happen after GE 13.
AB Sulaiman: Have we Malaysians, especially Muslims, forgotten what Information Minister Rais Yatim had cautioned us about the Internet, especially Facebook and Twitter a few months ago?
He had told us to avoid being totally immersed in the Internet culture. He told us that facilities like Internet could not be accepted wholly because it was a form of business introduced by the West and "Malaysians were just users".
And here we see the very same Rais trying to organise (and win) a Twitter record of sorts. Just when can we take him seriously?
Mohd Radzi Ibrahim: Cheating and falsifying numbers is the name of the game, nowadays.
Ferdtan: This is the cheating culture we are teaching the young (assuming they are the young culprits who spammed by using bots). They must have followed the way of Election Commission's alleged manipulation of the electoral rolls to help BN win elections.
Kedah Gerakan Youth chief Tan Keng Liang, it is not the opposition who found the evidence of spambot, it was the official finding from Politweet.org. A spambot, an automated computer programme designed to send spams, can also send spams using other people's accounts.
This what one defaulter, @Rusli_Katmin, did using the opposition leaders' accounts. He used account like LKS who has more than 64,300 followers; and can you just imagine how many more spams he can further create with his hijacked accounts?
It's enormous, not counting the other popular opposition users (eg, Tian Chua, Nik Nazmi Nik Mat, Tony Pua and Elizabeth Wong). If it can be proven that the opposition leaders' followers had been used by way of botspam, then I doubt #Merdeka55 tweet-up can reach even a million.
Phantoms hit Twitterjaya #Merdeka55 tweet-up
Anonymous_3e79: It is certain a sizable number of the tweets at the #Merdeka55 tweet-up was generated by Twitter bots. I am surprised that Umno leaders take the citizens for idiots.Well, perhaps the citizens was asleep for the last 50 years or so. But now they are awaken to the new realisation that the ruling Umno-BN is a corrupt regime and an evil institution. It must be broken and punished.
Anonymous #21828131: There is nothing to get excited over the number of tweets. We have had enough of malpractice and corruption. We want change and that will happen after GE 13.
AB Sulaiman: Have we Malaysians, especially Muslims, forgotten what Information Minister Rais Yatim had cautioned us about the Internet, especially Facebook and Twitter a few months ago?
He had told us to avoid being totally immersed in the Internet culture. He told us that facilities like Internet could not be accepted wholly because it was a form of business introduced by the West and "Malaysians were just users".
And here we see the very same Rais trying to organise (and win) a Twitter record of sorts. Just when can we take him seriously?
Mohd Radzi Ibrahim: Cheating and falsifying numbers is the name of the game, nowadays.
Ferdtan: This is the cheating culture we are teaching the young (assuming they are the young culprits who spammed by using bots). They must have followed the way of Election Commission's alleged manipulation of the electoral rolls to help BN win elections.
Kedah Gerakan Youth chief Tan Keng Liang, it is not the opposition who found the evidence of spambot, it was the official finding from Politweet.org. A spambot, an automated computer programme designed to send spams, can also send spams using other people's accounts.
This what one defaulter, @Rusli_Katmin, did using the opposition leaders' accounts. He used account like LKS who has more than 64,300 followers; and can you just imagine how many more spams he can further create with his hijacked accounts?
It's enormous, not counting the other popular opposition users (eg, Tian Chua, Nik Nazmi Nik Mat, Tony Pua and Elizabeth Wong). If it can be proven that the opposition leaders' followers had been used by way of botspam, then I doubt #Merdeka55 tweet-up can reach even a million.
Onyourtoes: Let us use some common sense here: the US Republican convention garnered some four million tweets at a rate 3,306 tweets per minute.
"#Merdeka55 peaked at 2,052 tweets per minute. So if 3,306 tweets per minute gave four million tweets, it is believable that 2,052 tweets per minute gave 3.6 million tweets," so said Politweet.org.
Now US has more than 300 million people, Malaysia has 28 million. What about the penetration rate of Tweets users - US or Malaysia, which is higher? Do you still believe the number, even if you discount the 38% so-called fake tweets? I rest my case.
Vijay47: After coming out with an enlightening and not surprising analysis of the tweet figures, Politweet unfortunately shot itself in the foot - it accepted the 2,052 'tweets per minute' statistics for Merdeka using the US as the benchmark.
Let us not dispute that there may be people like RusliKatmin who sent out 39 similar tweets in one night to the same person.
But as pointed out by Onyourtoes, one simply cannot stop at the basic US-Malaysia comparison, one has to look at two other factors - the total population and the penetration rate in both countries.
Apart from having 300 million people, it will be expected that a higher percentage will use tweets in the US than in Malaysia. At best, Malaysia's figures should be 308 or less per minute.
Thus having 2,052 tweets in Malaysia actually confirms that there was dirty work done. Politweet may as well hold that Malaysia's 2,052 is comparable with 3,800 in, say, India or China.
Gerard Lourdesamy: A regime on its death bed will resort to all sorts of means to claim that it is popular with the electorate. The reality is that the BN's popularity rating is only around 42 percent.
If this "tweety" campaign was such a success and with the 150,000 people attending the BN Merdeka bash at the Bukit Jalil Stadium on Friday night, the PM should call for GE13 within the next fortnight since he should be assured of a resounding victory.
But he still hasn't got the "inspiration" to do that. What we are witnessing is the extravagant swan song of the Umno-BN regime prior to its certain demise.
Imraz Ikhbal: Pathetic to the core! I was personally there at Bukit Jalil Stadium and I witnessed how they repeatedly pleaded to everyone present to help break the world record by tweeting to the PM but I could hardly see anyone bothering to do so.
And this is what they had to resort to? Phenomenal it is that Umno-BN's self-confidence for the rakyat's support is even lower than my own confidence for Umno-BN's popularity. Desperate times calls for desperate measures I guess.
Mushiro: Umno seems desperate to convince Malaysians of PM Najib Razak's 'high' popularity and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's 'low' popularity.
Even with the extremely unlevel playing field, the one-sided control of the media, the police intimidation of the opposition, Najib still cannot really convince Malaysians of his leadership and achievements.
Only a debate with Anwar will prove Najib's capability and convince Malaysians. Otherwise Najib is just a fake who believes he can buy everything with government money, including popularity.
Doesn't Najib feel ashamed that all the attempts to show his popularity is a big fake? The crowd in Bukit Jalil had to be ferried in, paid and tempted with big prizes. Then the media had to play up the false popularity. Now even the tweets are found to be phantoms.
Changeagent: Mushiro, of course he's not ashamed. That's why he keeps doing it. That's why there's a term for it - ‘syok sendiri'.
Wow, 63 users tweeted identical messages that they were eating curry mee at Queensbay Mall while listening to ‘Keranamu Malaysia' - all at the same time. Either these are all fake tweets, or the curry mee there must be really good. - Malaysiakini
"#Merdeka55 peaked at 2,052 tweets per minute. So if 3,306 tweets per minute gave four million tweets, it is believable that 2,052 tweets per minute gave 3.6 million tweets," so said Politweet.org.
Now US has more than 300 million people, Malaysia has 28 million. What about the penetration rate of Tweets users - US or Malaysia, which is higher? Do you still believe the number, even if you discount the 38% so-called fake tweets? I rest my case.
Vijay47: After coming out with an enlightening and not surprising analysis of the tweet figures, Politweet unfortunately shot itself in the foot - it accepted the 2,052 'tweets per minute' statistics for Merdeka using the US as the benchmark.
Let us not dispute that there may be people like RusliKatmin who sent out 39 similar tweets in one night to the same person.
But as pointed out by Onyourtoes, one simply cannot stop at the basic US-Malaysia comparison, one has to look at two other factors - the total population and the penetration rate in both countries.
Apart from having 300 million people, it will be expected that a higher percentage will use tweets in the US than in Malaysia. At best, Malaysia's figures should be 308 or less per minute.
Thus having 2,052 tweets in Malaysia actually confirms that there was dirty work done. Politweet may as well hold that Malaysia's 2,052 is comparable with 3,800 in, say, India or China.
Gerard Lourdesamy: A regime on its death bed will resort to all sorts of means to claim that it is popular with the electorate. The reality is that the BN's popularity rating is only around 42 percent.
If this "tweety" campaign was such a success and with the 150,000 people attending the BN Merdeka bash at the Bukit Jalil Stadium on Friday night, the PM should call for GE13 within the next fortnight since he should be assured of a resounding victory.
But he still hasn't got the "inspiration" to do that. What we are witnessing is the extravagant swan song of the Umno-BN regime prior to its certain demise.
Imraz Ikhbal: Pathetic to the core! I was personally there at Bukit Jalil Stadium and I witnessed how they repeatedly pleaded to everyone present to help break the world record by tweeting to the PM but I could hardly see anyone bothering to do so.
And this is what they had to resort to? Phenomenal it is that Umno-BN's self-confidence for the rakyat's support is even lower than my own confidence for Umno-BN's popularity. Desperate times calls for desperate measures I guess.
Mushiro: Umno seems desperate to convince Malaysians of PM Najib Razak's 'high' popularity and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's 'low' popularity.
Even with the extremely unlevel playing field, the one-sided control of the media, the police intimidation of the opposition, Najib still cannot really convince Malaysians of his leadership and achievements.
Only a debate with Anwar will prove Najib's capability and convince Malaysians. Otherwise Najib is just a fake who believes he can buy everything with government money, including popularity.
Doesn't Najib feel ashamed that all the attempts to show his popularity is a big fake? The crowd in Bukit Jalil had to be ferried in, paid and tempted with big prizes. Then the media had to play up the false popularity. Now even the tweets are found to be phantoms.
Changeagent: Mushiro, of course he's not ashamed. That's why he keeps doing it. That's why there's a term for it - ‘syok sendiri'.
Wow, 63 users tweeted identical messages that they were eating curry mee at Queensbay Mall while listening to ‘Keranamu Malaysia' - all at the same time. Either these are all fake tweets, or the curry mee there must be really good. - Malaysiakini
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