Ashton Kutcher vs CNN vs.. /b/

Tellox

So, while trawling the hive of villany and scum last night, I noticed one /b/tard kicking up a fuss (re: baaaww) about Ashton Kutcher and CNN having a race to see who can be the first to have one million followers on twitter.

From this, it was decided that /b/ should also join the race - using a twitter dedicated to basement dad; http://twitter.com/BASEMENTDAD

At around 2am last night, the twitter had around 70 followers.
It's now rising on 100,000 followers.

Of course, the moral dilemma between helping Ashton Kutcher and /b/ isn't so great - most would be more than eager to piss on what Kutcher would claim to be a life goal. My question to you however is this - why is it that as a human race, we can only truly motivate ourselves to a cause when the end result is to (just barely) piss someone off?

*Following.

RonMexico

wot

Robbo

If I wasn't wilfully resisting Twitter, I'd be in. Godspeed you Basement Dad.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

God /b/s gotten ****e

Tellox

In the past 15 minutes, basement dad has gone from 95.5k followers to just over 110k. Christ the internet is a savage and angry beast.

Cianos

following basement dad now:o

currently at 126,647

Edit:
The numbers are;

CNN: 965,020
Ashton: 950,862
/b/: 141,868

That_Guy

Good God the things people will do these days.

Seriously... CNN and Mr Ashton need to get laid.

banquo

Joined.

When I arrived on the page, following was 160,018.

Clicked Follow. Refreshed. Following was 160,323.

the internet.

CNN @ 966,185
Ashton Loser @ 953,044 followers

Go Mr. F!

banquo

Now 163,222. Mother of God.

Rowley Birkin QC

196,681 now...crazy.

Before reading this I didn't care about Twitter.

Oh wait. I still don't.

JIZZLORD

we should all support basement dad

a true australian hero

banquo

205K

orestes

Over 205k now, bloody hell. It's times like these I'm glad I don't have a twitter

Edit: 207k now, it's going up at roughly 150 every ten seconds!

banquo

Sheer madness.

I've been on twitter once - two months ago, the day I joined. Never bothered revisiting - nothing against it, it's just not for me - but I joined this guy. I shall encourage others to do the same.

My name is URL

Randy Uneven Alternator wrote: »

God /b/s gotten ****e

/b/ was never good, newfag

Ah it 263000

Cianos

Who thinks they're going to do it/not do it?

orestes

Cianos wrote: »

Who thinks they're going to do it/not do it?

I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't to be honest

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Upward Spiral wrote: »

/b/ was never good, newfag

Newfag yourself! And I didn't say it was ever particularly good, I said it's gotten ****e

Nevyn

orestes wrote: »

Over 205k now, bloody hell. It's times like these I'm glad I don't have a twitter

ahem http://twitter.com/orestesian

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Thaedydal wrote: »

ahem http://twitter.com/orestesian

That's right! You show them how it's done!

Cianos

orestes wrote: »

I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't to be honest

I dunno, Kutcher is now at 961,110. CNN on the other hand seem to be losing followers

orestes

Thaedydal wrote: »

ahem http://twitter.com/orestesian

:eek:

I forgot I had that!

banquo

Kutcher's had a huge drive in the last 24hrs it seems. It's 114 per minute for BD, only 30 for Kutcher. BD had a lot to make up though...

banquo

253K

Nevyn

These type of twitter follower wars fail and just ruin twitter for what it is.

Seriously go follow someone intresting like http://twitter.com/warrenellis

Will

they've obviously some set up where they've bots requesting him as a friend etc, can't be that fast, goes up every time you refresh.

deco05ie

Will wrote: »

they've obviously some set up where they've bots requesting him as a friend etc, can't be that fast, goes up every time you refresh.

They have scripts that create accounts all you do is enter the captcha
Twitter are aware of the situation and have responded to a few news sites but im not sure what there gonna do

banquo

This began of 4chan, so I imagine that's the case alright.

PrivateEye

The Rules.



GTFO my bee.

deco05ie

aparrently twitter have just started blocking Ip's this will slow down everything

doubt there gonna make it, they should just make CNN win since there already in the lead

banquo

PrivateEye wrote: »

The Rules.


GTFO my bee.

Her?

Terry

PrivateEye wrote: »

The Rules.



GTFO my bee.

Oh no. Google didn't follow the rules.
http://www.google.ie/search?q=%2Fb%2F&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2009-3,GGGL:en

banquo

Seems like the count has stalled at 284K. Twitter - I assume - closed account-making from certain IPs.

JIZZLORD

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/04/basementdad.html

S.I.R

https://twitter.com/Wtflolzomg


ill beat ye all !