Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter

well, it looks like we just got... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:38 · Score: 0

MEG-ROLLED

Re:well, it looks like we just got... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:39 · Score: 0

Whitrolled
Re:well, it looks like we just got... by Tackhead · 2010-10-20 11:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Whitrolled

"Whitrolled? That's not a meme!"
"It is now."
Re:well, it looks like we just got... by Pharmboy · 2010-10-20 11:52 · Score: 2, Insightful

Not so much a meme as an AFD.

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Re:well, it looks like we just got... by bill_mcgonigle · 2010-10-20 12:29 · Score: 2, Insightful

To be fair, Megrolled is being used more on the video's comments.
Everybody, please join me in posting a serious headline with this video as the referenced URL to your favorite social media. Now, that's how you start a meme!
And this guy is a really good bassist - getting him a good music gig would just be icing on the memewich.

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Re:well, it looks like we just got... by suiminbusoku · 2010-10-20 12:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

We got K-ON'd
Re:well, it looks like we just got... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 12:42 · Score: 1, Funny

How about sMegged instead? ;p
Re:well, it looks like we just got... by KevinIsOwn · 2010-10-20 19:50 · Score: 2, Interesting

The Wikipedia deletionists are already trying to delete it. Go support this term! KEEP.
Re:well, it looks like we just got... by GameboyRMH · 2010-10-21 06:14 · Score: 2, Insightful

Nascent memes belong on uncyclopedia, not wikipedia. It can go on wikipedia once it's well-established.

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Wow... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:39 · Score: 4, Funny

Awesome guitaring...

Sorry, what were we discussing?

Re:Wow... by Z34107 · 2010-10-20 16:37 · Score: 1

I thought we were discussing a pretty epic Mio cover, who just happened to be poorly covered.

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How not to... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:39 · Score: 0

It's how not to use a url shortener, mostly.

Well by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:40 · Score: 0

I that explained a lot.

Re:Well by supertrinko · 2010-10-20 12:37 · Score: 1

Definitely. Grown men in tutu's have always made me happy that there are police around.

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I sense a.... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:41 · Score: 0

New meme inc.

Re:I sense a.... by sarysa · 2010-10-20 12:21 · Score: 1

That clip cannot be unseen.

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It's not "for whatever reason" by tomhudson · 2010-10-20 11:42 · Score: 4, Insightful

> "And for whatever reason, the Tweet, which went out on the 18th, has remained active through today."

It remained active because nobody reads tweets. Just like nobody reads facebook.

All you "internet marketers", forget it - people's eyes glaze over after the 1,000th message - it doesn't even stay in short-term memory.

Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by MoonBuggy · 2010-10-20 11:54 · Score: 1

I know nothing of her campaign team, so I don't know if they would be this smart, but the fact stands that we're now reading a story about Meg Whitman. Sure, it's a little negative, but there's a vast opportunity for positive spin while her name's getting thrown out there.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 12:05 · Score: 0

I think a few of the 500,000,000 members of Facebook read it. Heck, some of them even read my business page which thanks to a widget also shows up on my websites. That's not 'internet marketing' - thats life.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by blair1q · 2010-10-20 12:07 · Score: 1

Yuh-huh. That's why things posted to Twitter never become top tweets or escape the bounds of Twitter to become memes in other forums, like /.
And people definitely remember clicking on a link for a candidate's PR and getting a nipponese cross-dresser with an axe.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 12:08 · Score: 0

It sounds like you're one of those people who don't realize there's a difference between what *you* do and what *a lot of other people* do. You may not use FB or Twitter, but that has no bearing on whether or not other people use it.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by blair1q · 2010-10-20 12:09 · Score: 4, Insightful

The vastness of that opportunity has to be compared in size with the vastness of the negative wave of press this has already gotten her.
Her staff are incompetent. They proved it not once, but twice. First by posting the link without double-checking it after pasting it, and second by not deleting the tweet and posting the correct link.
I'm sure they will probably prove that they are incompetent a third time, by taking your advice to use spin instead of action to resolve their failure.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Dahamma · 2010-10-20 12:31 · Score: 4, Insightful

Really?
A YouTube video of a cross-dressing Japanese man playing the guitar now has over 950,000 views.
I think people have been reading this one.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Arthur+Grumbine · 2010-10-20 12:47 · Score: 2, Insightful

I know nothing of her campaign team, so I don't know if they would be this smart, but the fact stands that we're now reading a story about Meg Whitman.
Trust me, if you live in California and spend any time: watching TV, listening to the radio, reading the newspaper, visiting websites of California news media, or even just going outside, you are already sick of hearing about Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.

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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 13:21 · Score: 0

I love how people assert that no-one reads tweets, or who could possibly click on animated ads, et cetera.
We marketers don't just throw stuff out there and hope it works. We test, test, and test again, and the stuff we keep doing is the stuff that brings in eyes / buys / signups for our clients. Twitter works, and works unsettlingly well. Claiming it doesn't it just putting on blinders to something that you personally don't care about.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by CosmeticLobotamy · 2010-10-20 13:22 · Score: 1

The negative press is entirely counter-acted by one more tweet: "Heh. Whoops. But man, that guy rocks." With a screw-up this tiny, you just have to let people know you know you fucked up.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by MightyMartian · 2010-10-20 13:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Knowing politicians, she'll probably sue the bass player and send out DMCA takedown over it.

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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by oursland · 2010-10-20 13:34 · Score: 2, Interesting

Not really. Since this error has gone through the net I've seen it go from about 85k to your 950k views. No one is paying attention to her, people are paying attention to these news articles.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Symbha · 2010-10-20 13:59 · Score: 1

> All you "internet marketers", forget it - people's eyes glaze over after the 1,000th message - it doesn't even stay in short-term memory.
Yep, because twitter and facebook are not about reading (or information gathering) they are about self expression.
Everyone's a writer nowadays, nobody is reading...
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Metrathon · 2010-10-20 14:16 · Score: 1

Well unless the slashdotters stick around and watch most of his videos it seems this guy is pretty popular. Many of his videos hit several hundred thousand hit. Pretty impressive I say.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by PopeRatzo · 2010-10-20 14:26 · Score: 1

No one is paying attention to her
She's easy not to pay attention to.

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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by FooAtWFU · 2010-10-20 15:21 · Score: 1

Given all the publicity it's received, maybe this was a net win for the campaign then? :)

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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Dahamma · 2010-10-20 15:27 · Score: 1

Slashdotters??
This story hit the mainstream long before it made it to slashdot (as usual). I'm sure with ~1M people hitting the linked video, at least 10-20% were curious enough to check out a few others.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Dahamma · 2010-10-20 15:29 · Score: 1

Yes, that's kind of the point. I don't have a Twitter account and hate the entire concept, but I can't go 20 minutes online without someone referencing, quoting, re-sending, etc a "tweet".
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Raisey-raison · 2010-10-20 19:07 · Score: 1

Just clicked on it, Gave me a very good laugh after a very hard day. Go Meg! :)
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by MistrBlank · 2010-10-21 00:42 · Score: 1

My wife would beg to disagree with you.... she's on Facebook all the time reading what crap her friends have to spew.
I on the other hand wish you were correct.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by AltairDusk · 2010-10-21 02:36 · Score: 1

I wish nobody clicked on those animated ads, possibly the most annoying form of advertising and the main reason I run adblock. If they didn't work the internet would be free of them.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by BobMcD · 2010-10-21 02:43 · Score: 1

Trust me, if you live in California and spend any time: watching TV, listening to the radio, reading the newspaper, visiting websites of California news media, or even just going outside, you are already sick of hearing about Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.
I'm sick of it, and I haven't even visited California for years.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by commodore64_love · 2010-10-21 03:27 · Score: 0

>>>people's eyes glaze over after the 1,000th message - it doesn't even stay in short-term memory.
Can you repeat that?
*Always double check your links*. I do. Oftentimes due to an error the link is broken, or links to something else. If Ebay CEO Whitman had done the same, she could have avoided this mistake.
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>>>Feedback on this comment system?
It sucks. I hate this dynamic index and can't get back to the classic (plain text) index.

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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by BJ_Covert_Action · 2010-10-21 04:11 · Score: 1

Or, for that matter, if you own a mailbox. The bright side of all the campaigning, of course, is that Jerry Brown's fliers are made of a type of tag board that is great for creating acoustic cones (you're damn right I'm inserting a shameless self-plug, Cali politicians aren't the only ones that can campaign!) and Meg Whitman's letters are great at cleaning up spilled juice off of a hardwood floor!

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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by lawpoop · 2010-10-21 11:20 · Score: 1

Yeah, sure, advertising doesn't work. You see several Coke ads a day. Do you really look at any of them?

In the 1920s, their main rival, Moxie, decided to put their money into buying more sugar, which was becoming more expensive, and cut their advertising budget. Which soda do you drink today?

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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by tomhudson · 2010-10-21 11:30 · Score: 2, Insightful

We marketers don't just throw stuff out there and hope it works. We test, test, and test again, and the stuff we keep doing is the stuff that brings in eyes / buys / signups for our clients.

I can buy both followers and signups for well under a nickel each.
Pay per click fraud is alive and well, and anyone who believes otherwise is a total idiot. Social networks have already passed their apogee in terms of effectiveness - like the Catholic church, it just takes time for the rot to become apparent to the average person.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by tomhudson · 2010-10-21 11:38 · Score: 1

Ask her ONE buying decision she made because of a post from an internet marketer on facebook. Just ONE.
All this money being poured into "social media marketing", and it's become a vast echo chamber of companies doing it because they see other companies doing it, and figure "it must be working for them, we don't dare miss the train."
But that's all it is. A vast echo chamber, with everyone mimicking everyone else. If you want to do something original, you don't do it on facebook or twitter, where it will get lost in the torrential spew of useless posts.
Heck, I sat down with our social marketer yesterday and we discussed this issue. Of the ~100 posts from her friends, she could only remember ONE.
The short retention of the medium bodes ill for the long term. It's designed for the 5-second attention span - because reading even 100 posts at 15 seconds a piece is beyond the capability of most users, whose reading skills started deteriorating before they left school.
Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by tomhudson · 2010-10-21 11:45 · Score: 1

You're not the only one who hates this "new un-improved" index.
We were talking about ways to improve slashdot, including these suggestions by Stargoat, which included "The user interface is too GUIed up. It needs simplification. Eliminate all the bouncy visual crap."
Maybe it's proof that excessive exposure to perl causes brain damage?
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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by fishexe · 2010-10-21 16:45 · Score: 1

Knowing tech company executives, she'll probably sue the bass player and send out DMCA takedown over it.
Fixed that for you.

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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by fishexe · 2010-10-21 16:47 · Score: 1

Really?
A YouTube video of a cross-dressing Japanese man playing the guitar now has over 950,000 views.
I think people have been reading this one.
I dunno man, the numa numa guy got way more than thought on his own.

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Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by tomhudson · 2010-10-21 23:01 · Score: 1

Neither.
And Coke had a leg up, since it originally contained cocaine.

Mistake? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:43 · Score: 0

Maybe she was aiming that tweet at the Frisco demographic.

Re:Mistake? by Dthief · 2010-10-20 11:50 · Score: 1

Does that qualify as "flamer"-bait

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Coincidence? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:43 · Score: 0

Its pretty hard to get a genuine bit.ly link by dropping or changing random letters. I tried a dozen or so times and got invalid links. I wonder, if you wanted to do that on purpose, could you?

Re:Coincidence? by Mathinker · 2010-10-20 18:41 · Score: 1

I think you're thinking in the wrong direction. I think you should wonder if link shorteners have just discovered a new business model --- when generating shortened URLs for an IP address which has historically generated a lot of previous hits, always use a string which, when mangled, often leads one to somewhere which generates a bit of extra income (for the link shortener).
Or if it actually isn't realistic to generate income this way, this is still at least is a kind of strange sort of side-channel-routing-influence-power on the net. Interesting!
Re:Coincidence? by AltairDusk · 2010-10-21 02:38 · Score: 1

My suspicion is that whoever posted the tweet had also grabbed a shortened URL for that video to send to their friends ("Hey check this out, lol") but then posted the wrong link.

Missing Character by Reason58 · 2010-10-20 11:43 · Score: 4, Informative

This resulted from missing the last character when she was copying. From the reddit article 13 hours ago:

Intended link:

http://bit.ly/bNCAVr

Posted link by the retweeter:

http://bit.ly/bNCAV

What a difference a character can make.

Re:Missing Character by amicusNYCL · 2010-10-20 11:52 · Score: 2, Funny

What a difference a character can make.
While a really talented cross-dressing Japanese 8-string bass player is a pretty good result, it could have been much, much worse.

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Re:Missing Character by EdIII · 2010-10-20 12:33 · Score: 4, Insightful

What a difference a character can make.
While a really talented cross-dressing Japanese 8-string bass player is a pretty good result, it could have been much, much worse.
Are you kidding? Considering how unbelievably perverted the Japanese can be with what they put online (not trolling, but sincere admiration) the fact they linked to a video from Japan with just cross-dressing involved and no pixelated areas was like winning the lottery.
Re:Missing Character by Arthur+Grumbine · 2010-10-20 12:39 · Score: 4, Funny

What a difference a character can make.
Especially when that character is wearing a tutu!

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Re:Missing Character by snookums · 2010-10-20 12:41 · Score: 2, Interesting

Most likely the final character was chopped by the 140 character limit. The published message appears to have only 137 characters, but perhaps there were some double spaces or something in the original that were lost. I know of another instance of exactly this happening recently (to a high-profile online media company).
The collision rate on bit.ly links appears to be quite high. In addition to the truncated URL being valid, running through all 52 possibilities appending a single letter to bNCAV, about two thirds of them are valid too.

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Re:Missing Character by ITI_guy · 2010-10-20 12:52 · Score: 1

Are we talking about politicians? You could have just said "What a difference character can make."
Re:Missing Character by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 13:23 · Score: 0

Where do you see an 8 string bass?
Re:Missing Character by wavedeform · 2010-10-20 16:33 · Score: 1

Especially when that character is wearing a tutu!
Which he probably bought on eBay.
Re:Missing Character by rdnetto · 2010-10-22 19:39 · Score: 1

http://www.icanhasmotivation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rape-03-520x416.jpg
(Ironically, the anime that picture is from and the anime the song the guy in the video was playing are from the same studio, Kyoto Animation. Although, that link might be just a bit too tenuous...)

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Somebody translate, please... by c0lo · 2010-10-20 11:44 · Score: 1

are Californians stuck with the guvernator, then? (i.e. for the lack of credible candidates?)
I mean, while he's up there, we can't hope for another movie, can we?

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Re:Somebody translate, please... by MrEricSir · 2010-10-20 11:47 · Score: 2, Informative

No, Arnold can't run again. It's basically between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.

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Re:Somebody translate, please... by MichaelSmith · 2010-10-20 11:55 · Score: 1

No, Arnold can't run again.
Without a time machine I suppose.

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Re:Somebody translate, please... by zill · 2010-10-20 11:59 · Score: 2, Insightful

No, Arnold can't run again.
But he's the running man!
Re:Somebody translate, please... by countSudoku() · 2010-10-20 12:02 · Score: 1

He'll be back.
Sorry.
Actually, that sucks because I already sent in my remote control ballot and I would like to change my Gobernador vote to the Japanese guy with the bass guitar. I'll bet he can get a budget in on time!

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Re:Somebody translate, please... by Fluffeh · 2010-10-20 12:26 · Score: 1

No, Arnold can't run again. It's basically between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.
But... but... He's the RUNNING MAN!

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Re:Somebody translate, please... by PopeRatzo · 2010-10-20 14:29 · Score: 2, Funny

I mean, while he's up there, we can't hope for another movie
Is that a Hobson's choice or what? The good news is that he's no longer governor. The bad news is that he'll make another movie.
The only celebrity ex-governor who went out with class was Jesse "the Body" Ventura.

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Re:Somebody translate, please... by NiceGeek · 2010-10-20 15:37 · Score: 1

You mean the 9/11 troofer?
Re:Somebody translate, please... by c0lo · 2010-10-20 16:00 · Score: 1

I mean, while he's up there, we can't hope for another movie
The bad news is that he'll make another movie.
Why is this bad news?
I think that the world would be poorer (more boring) without Rickrolling, LOLcats and Schwartzy's movies. You may not like them, even you may consider them silly or stoopeed, but how the world would be without "Ach'll be back" and "Hasta la vista, baby"?

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Re:Somebody translate, please... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-21 03:22 · Score: 0

No, Arnold can't run again. It's basically between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.
So why would Whitman tweet a video of Jerry Brown?
Re:Somebody translate, please... by MrEricSir · 2010-10-21 07:34 · Score: 1

ZING!
Anyway, Whitman needs to get back to her chocolate making job at the Wonka factory.

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If I was a Politician by Basehart · 2010-10-20 11:46 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'd rather be endorsed by a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar than a police association any day.

Re:If I was a Politician by Local+ID10T · 2010-10-20 12:08 · Score: 1

I'd rather be endorsed by a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar than a police association any day.
Well, this is California...
We are far friendlier to alternative lifestyles than most. Heck, that isn't really all that "alternative" around here... its more like friday night at the coffee shop.

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What! by eyenot · 2010-10-20 11:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What's so wrong with this? I think it's a great campaign strategy.

This is so stupid, why are we being forced to comment anonymously?

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Re:What! by Pharmboy · 2010-10-20 11:55 · Score: 1

We aren't being forced to comment anonymously. it is just a crappy "new" feature on /. that is confusing, slow, unintuitive and obtrusive. I have already emailed and complained to them, for the first time ever.

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but i thought.... by metalmaster · 2010-10-20 11:47 · Score: 1

twitter auto-shortened the url.

"OMG u haz to c www.reallylongurlfornoapparentreason.net/content.html" to "OMG u haz to c www.bit.ly/content"

Oh well, i dont use twitter enough to know

Cluelessly posted ?from=twitter

Stupid witty thing on bottom right part ofthispage by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:47 · Score: 0

To be considered successful, a woman must be much better at her job than a man would have to be. Fortunately, this isn't difficult. -_-

Could be worse. A lot worse. by clem · 2010-10-20 11:48 · Score: 1

In terms of possible web pages you could have linked to via a misspelled http://bit.ly/ address, a man in a tutu is pretty tame in comparison.

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Computer illiterate? by MrEricSir · 2010-10-20 11:50 · Score: 2, Interesting

Could it be that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is computer illiterate?

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Re:Computer illiterate? by MichaelSmith · 2010-10-20 11:54 · Score: 1

Is the sky blue? (checks) Yes it is!

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Re:Computer illiterate? by Nocuous · 2010-10-20 12:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Could it be that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is computer illiterate?
Yes, because she of course typed in the url. And was responsible for QA, and for fixing any problems that show up.

She does all her own technical and scut work. Yesterday, she got her own coffee and collated those new defamatory fliers. Tomorrow she's going to run the cabling under the server room floor in her campaign headquarters.

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Re:Computer illiterate? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 15:51 · Score: 0

Could be, when your managing something large like ebay the routine stuff is taken care of by staff.
Re:Computer illiterate? by delinear · 2010-10-20 23:45 · Score: 1

And by "routine stuff" you mean everything apart from glitzy social events and golf weekends, right?
Re:Computer illiterate? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-21 01:23 · Score: 0

No it's not.

Seems like the best thing that could have happened by h4rr4r · 2010-10-20 11:50 · Score: 4, Interesting

Seems like the best thing that could have happened, if the police support them you know they are scumbags.

Libya by MichaelSmith · 2010-10-20 11:50 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I am surprised that the Japanese guy in the tutu isn't banned by Sharia law.

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Re:Libya by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-21 00:33 · Score: 0

And just how would a review system work without adding undue delay to the service? I doubt Libya can afford such a server farm.

Re:If this is the type of crime Meg wants to stop. by amicusNYCL · 2010-10-20 11:53 · Score: 2, Informative

Jerry Brown is too soft on bass players!

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Re:Could be worse. A lot worse. by Etrigoth · 2010-10-20 11:55 · Score: 1

Basically this *shudder*

On the other hand, Meg has accidently introduced us to a great Bass player that I probably would have never experienced.
Props for that :)

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That was jarring... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 11:56 · Score: 0

For the first 2-3 seconds I was all like "All right!" then it all turned to "Oh No".

Yup, I think that pretty much sums it up.

Wrong country? by Etrigoth · 2010-10-20 12:03 · Score: 3, Informative

According to his You-tube profile, this guy is from South Korea, not Japan ?

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Re:Wrong country? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 12:28 · Score: 1, Informative

He's playing Japanese music so it's an understandable mistake.
Re:Wrong country? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 21:13 · Score: 0

To cover up their mistake, they changed the bit.ly URL in the tweet.

Not Japanese! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 12:04 · Score: 1

According to his own YouTube page he's South Korean, not Japanese! The Far East is not one country you know.

Re:Not Japanese! by oatworm · 2010-10-20 12:15 · Score: 1

I prefer to think of it more as one big greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Re:Not Japanese! by Nidi62 · 2010-10-20 12:29 · Score: 1

Dont think many Manchurians found it very prosperous.

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Re:Not Japanese! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 13:07 · Score: 0

It was the people just outside the sphere who suffered most. Manchukuo, Korea, and Taiwan were picnics compared to Nanking.

Are you sure? by mysidia · 2010-10-20 12:15 · Score: 1

Perhaps an anti-Greg Whitman person on staff at bit.ly changed where the URL redirects to?

Or performed a MITM attack, when the tweet was being sent, to rewrite the URL.

Cue twilight zone music

You think it was an accident? by LoudMusic · 2010-10-20 12:15 · Score: 3, Insightful

You think it was an accident? Shit, they've even got Slashdot putting her name in lights. Looks like a rather well played marketing tactic to me.

And probably picked up thousands of new Twitter followers in the process.

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Re:You think it was an accident? by rtb61 · 2010-10-20 14:28 · Score: 2, Insightful

No politician want's to be associated with a joke where they are the tutu clad butt of it. The reality is, it is popular because of the negative connotations associated with it and a lot of people want to see her in a bad light. A popularity poll certainly but a negative one.

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Re:You think it was an accident? by BobMcD · 2010-10-21 02:49 · Score: 1

No politician want's to be associated with a joke where they are the tutu clad butt of it. The reality is, it is popular because of the negative connotations associated with it and a lot of people want to see her in a bad light. A popularity poll certainly but a negative one.
Is it really THAT negative, though? Some intern screwed up on his grunt work. It happens all the time. It could, possibly be used to construe her as being 'more human'. She makes mistakes. Remember Gloria Allred recently accusing her of having a photographic memory which included things her husband did without her involvement? Tutu-man kinda flies in the face of that argument, doesn't it?
Re:You think it was an accident? by SleazyRidr · 2010-10-21 02:54 · Score: 1

Exactly; that any publicity is good publicity only works for artists.

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Re:You think it was an accident? by fishexe · 2010-10-21 16:51 · Score: 1

And probably picked up thousands of new Twitter followers in the process.
Yeah, all the tutu-bass music fans are now following her campaign, anxiously awaiting the next video. They'll be really disappointed to see a link to some stupid political endorsement.

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He's not Japanese FFS by kindbud · 2010-10-20 12:16 · Score: 1

Yes, he titles his videos in Japanese, and plays a awesome slap bass line to Japanese pop songs.

But he is actually a Korean. Check out his YouTube page: H.J.Freaks

He can also shred a Strat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQShZ2Tnshk

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Re:He's not Japanese FFS by afxgrin · 2010-10-20 13:46 · Score: 1

Primus could probably put him on stage and it not change their show at all.
Re:He's not Japanese FFS by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 13:50 · Score: 0

Nobody can tell the difference, get over it.

Prop 19? by krray · 2010-10-20 12:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Looks more like an endorsement for proposition 19.
I want what he's smoking!

Typical . . . by NicknamesAreStupid · 2010-10-20 12:19 · Score: 1

. . . example of the foreign influence in American government politics.

No understanding of technology or politics by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 12:27 · Score: 0

It is good to keep in mind that Meg Whitman has little or no understanding of technology or politics. She just happened to be around when eBay was formed.

Coulda been worse by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 12:31 · Score: 0

It's a damn shame really, that she didn't try [NSFW] http://bit.ly/bNCAVv [NSFW]

Dear god, please let it be fuwa fuwa time! by dannycim · 2010-10-20 12:32 · Score: 1

When I read the description I was all like "Oh please oh please oh please oh please let it be the one I think it is!"

Mio Akiyama has nothing on that bass player, that's an excellent rendition of Fuwa Fuwa time.

Re:Dear god, please let it be fuwa fuwa time! by xSander · 2010-10-20 19:07 · Score: 1

You do know Mio-chan is fictional, right?
Though the seiyuu's are not :)
Re:Dear god, please let it be fuwa fuwa time! by dannycim · 2010-10-20 23:16 · Score: 1

You do know Mio-chan is fictional, right?
Though the seiyuu's are not :)
Dreams... Crushed... Will to live... fading... Tell me it ain't true!
Then again, I'd be pretty surprised if it were the seiyuus playing the instruments in K-ON!

Wow check some of his other vids by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 12:38 · Score: 0

He/she rocks

The video should be taken down shortly by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 12:47 · Score: 0

I just flagged that video as "inappropriate". Nobody has anything to worry about anymore.

I'm just going to quote djdavetrouble... by seyyah · 2010-10-20 12:56 · Score: 4, Funny

... word for word:

I want to thank fairy bassist, Meg Whitman and the rest of the whole fucking internet for making my day over 9000 times more awesome. I'd also like to thank Japan for mastering how to take some regular ass shit and make it bizarre. also 8 string bass ftw!

Too bad by bob0the0mighty · 2010-10-20 13:29 · Score: 1

this wasn't on purpose. I could get behind a candidate that has a sense of humor.

Re:Could be worse. A lot worse. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 13:34 · Score: 0

-1, Disappointing

sure dude by z-j-y · 2010-10-20 13:52 · Score: 1

slashdot just can't stay out of politics. must find some dirt on the whore. she is a whore, of course.

The joys of namespace compression by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 13:56 · Score: 0

And dense codes.

Obligatory Jobs comment by microbee · 2010-10-20 14:15 · Score: 1

You are tweeting it wrong!

fuwa fuwa time! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 14:24 · Score: 0

at least it's a sweet song. k-on!!!!!!!

Mugawd2funy!!!! by jIyajbe · 2010-10-20 17:15 · Score: 1

Ow ow ow! Soda through my nose! OW OW OW!!!

I want all of my fellow Slashdotters to know that this is, in fact, the first time I have EVER used the following acronym:

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously. But this deserved it.

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At least this is really just a typo by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 17:43 · Score: 1, Interesting

I'm waiting for the day that bit.ly or one of those other services like them, fucks up. Imagine someone uses the bit.ly API to automatically send all their links through redirect hell, then for some reason bit.ly malfunctions (or decides they don't like that user), and all the links go elsewhere (nambla, cult of scientology, neo-nazi party, porn, whatever -- use your imagination). Pure chaos and hilarity.

Re:At least this is really just a typo by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 18:48 · Score: 0

I'm waiting for someone at bit.ly to take all the links used by some anti-net-neutrality wonk and redirect them all to goatse.cx so we can see how quickly the wonk runs to mommy government to force bit.ly to carry their URLs right ;( ;( ;(

Does anyone actually use Twitter? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 18:10 · Score: 0

I hear lots and lots of media people throwing this around like it the greatest thing ever invented, but I don't know a single person that uses Twitter.

Re:Does anyone actually use Twitter? by 91degrees · 2010-10-20 19:14 · Score: 1

Which is why you don't use it. Twitter only makes sense if you know other people who use it.

Tree, forest, sound by drcheap · 2010-10-20 19:08 · Score: 1

Yep, because twitter and facebook are not about reading (or information gathering) they are about self expression. Everyone's a writer nowadays, nobody is reading...

If you post self centered crap on the interwebz, and nobody cares enough to read about it, have you really "expressed" yourself?

It's the modern day version of "If a tree falls in the forest, and noone's around, does it make a sound?"

Only this one has an easy answer... it doesn't matter, because all your privacy are belong to them.

Re:Tree, forest, sound by Quirkz · 2010-10-21 02:12 · Score: 1

Well, even if you haven't expressed yourself in the original posts, when you compile all your Face-Tweets into a journal and self-publish as an e-book then you've *really* expressed yourself!

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Re:Tree, forest, sound by drcheap · 2010-10-21 04:54 · Score: 1

I should do that -- I wonder how much $$ I can get by publishing such an e-book? My current Face-Tweet count is at an all-time, staggering, breathtaking, death-defying, intartube-busting high of zero!
Re:Tree, forest, sound by Quirkz · 2010-10-21 11:02 · Score: 1

Ooh! How very Zen! Your book would have a literal nothing to demonstrate the figurative emptiness of the typical stuff spewed onto the internet.

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How do we know it is a man? by Catbus · 2010-10-20 21:11 · Score: 1

We have no proof that the player is a man. The player could be female. It is sexist to think that someone with a couple of masculine features is necessarily a man. You find the player unattractive? Perhaps, by your cultural standards.

Error checking? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 22:04 · Score: 0

It a funny story but it does bring up a more serious point - using URL shortening leads to URLs where:
* It is difficult to spot a mistake
* A small mistake may lead to a completely different URL rather than a 404

Shouldn't URL shortening services have error checking built in to them?

They would lose some of their maximum URL space for a given number of characters in the URL but it would prevent things like this happening (they could show a "oops, looks like someone made a mistake" pafge instead)

Re:Error checking? by DrSkwid · 2010-10-21 01:10 · Score: 1

you mean something like "I'll click on the link once it's Tweeted to make sure it is good"

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Let me be.. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 23:02 · Score: 0

Let me be the first to say... damn, that guy is CUTE. c.c

how'd she get that link? by sqkybeaver · 2010-10-20 23:23 · Score: 0

At least she has the cross dressing Asian musician vote! I've seen worse!

Re:Stupid witty thing on bottom right part ofthisp by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 23:43 · Score: 0

She probably got a man to post the tweet.

The political implications are intresting... by ultraexactzz · 2010-10-21 00:06 · Score: 1

I'd love to see if her opponent pulls the trigger on an ad making light of this. "Jerry Brown is ready to make the tough choices. He's ready to fix the broken state government. His opponent, on the other hand... (cue tutu guitar man)"

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Clipboard FAIL by pinkushun · 2010-10-21 00:53 · Score: 1

This is what happens when you don't double-check your clipboard contents. (The URLs being similar apart from one missing character is just coincidence)

Excellent by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-21 02:08 · Score: 0

Mmhh bespectacled, Smithers? Excellent!

lol by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-21 02:28 · Score: 0

is it sad that I have seen these dudes videos before this...
but LOL good job anonymous

Why Would Meg Care by LifesABeach · 2010-10-21 02:31 · Score: 1

People may believe that this person cares about public perceptions, there is no evidence to support this statement. My wish to my fellow Republicans is that we find a gubernatorial candidate who believes in less government that has NOT conducted business guided by short sited blind ambition.

And it worked by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-21 04:20 · Score: 0

You are now talking about it.

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