Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Wingnuts hallucinate about Twitter bias

The right-wing brain trust thinks there's a liberal conspiracy in everything, don't they?

Right-wing extremists recently complained that Twitter's suggested user list contained more Democratic candidates for Governor of California than Republican candidates - which they claimed was harming the poor, precious GOP.

These allegations were completely unfounded. If nobody got a Republican candidate in their suggested user list, it was probably because the GOP has so little support. (Indeed, the leading Democratic candidate has almost 1,000,000 Twitter followers, while each of the leading Republican candidates has fewer than 5,000.)

Despite this, Twitter is buckling under by abolishing this feature.

The moral of the story? If you're a wingnut, all you need to do is scream and cry for a few minutes, and you'll get your way. Gotta coddle the little babies, I guess.

(Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/67963-twitter-scrapping-suggested-user-list-following-allegations-of-political-bias)

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