Fact Check: LGF Tweet Counters – Rigged to Display “Clicks”, not Tweets
(or, Johnson has a strange definition for “retweet”)
For the longest time, we’ve suspected that there was something fishy about the numbers displayed by the custom-installed tweet counter that appears at the top of every LGF article (remember CJ programs these things personally), but we couldn’t quite put our finger on it.
Now, I think we should say that it shouldn’t be that big of a deal, and normally we’d leave this kind of geeky quibbling alone. But like the broken/rigged “views” counter, the resulting figures are something that Johnson apparently likes to brag about:
Now at 1800 retweets: Fact Checking Breitbart's Lies on the Leaked Photo http://lgf.bz/lR01pO #LGF #tcot #tlot #p2—
Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) June 09, 2011
So before Johnson embarrasses himself further, we’ve decided to keep CJ honest. After a little research, The Boiler Room is ready to let everyone know what is actually being counted up there.
As it turned out, the deception is hiding in plain sight, as the explanation went flying over the lizard’s heads a while back (I must have missed this) in the form of one of CJ’s beloved “tech notes”:
…This retweet function uses the LGF account with bit.ly, a URL shortener that tracks statistics; the number shown above the green Retweet button is the number of incoming clicks from the bit.ly URL for that article — in other words, the Twitter traffic for that article…
What he’s saying here is that, while clicking the button itself will take you to the slick tweet window with the title, url and hashtags already populated for you (I’ve used it many times), the number displayed in the counter is simply the number of times that the shortened url has been clicked. This is NOT the same as the amount of tweets or retweets, as are displayed by the counters here and virtually every other blog. “Clicks” ≠ “tweets” (but that should go without saying, especially to someone like Johnson).
Heck, just visit any of the bit.ly stats pages that Johnson is talking about. Humorously, it becomes obvious right away that this is a flawed and exaggerated method to display a figure that anyone would describe as “tweets” or “retweets”. To check, simply add a “+” to the end of any short bit.ly (or lgf.bz) url, and it will take you to the corresponding stats page. So, for this Breitbart thread, we go to http://lgf.bz/lR01pO+, and you see this:
Scroll down a bit, and you see this:
Forget “tweets” and “retweets”, according to the stats page that CJ’s using, 59% of the “clicks” for this shortened url came from somewhere other than twitter.
To hammer home the point, consider the fact that I linked to and old LGF article right here at DoD a few threads back, after making one of those short urls. At first, the tweet counter for that article was at 0. But, now that our readers have been clicking on it for a few hours, we can add the “+” to get http://lgf.bz/alUUat+, and we see:
Lo and behold:
That’s right. This thread is on the verge of showing in the LGF sidebar under the top “tweeted articles“, and it hasn’t even been on twitter. In fact, let’s see if we can get it even higher! http://lgf.bz/alUUat
Or, try your own in the comment section. Check out the bit.ly feed for LGF, find a short url for, say, one of the LGF pages and post it. (or, do what I did, and try an old article).
Bottom line: The number displayed in the “tweet” counter is just as bogus as the “views” counter. Both glean their numbers by flawed methods, and result in figures that are grossly inflated.
Update: We continue to have some fun with LGF’s “flawed” tweet counter. By simply posting http://lgf.bz/alUUat, and clicking on it:
Update:
Ummmm…OK then!
Update: OMG this is fun:
Has this thread actually been on twitter yet?
Update: Looks like the “flaw” is beginning to go viral:
click it: http://lgf.bz/alUUat
Update: Uh oh…our friend CJ may be in trouble here:
Do we have a tweet yet? No?
Update?
Just for S&G, let’s check.
Aw shit, some asshole named Gus_903 decided to tweet it.
OK, just 1 tweet. I suppose we can soldier on…:
Update: See what I mean?
No, I don’t think that “tweet” counter is accurate.
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Hilarious. Just one more example of how the BRC fact-checks Chuck’s ass.
Outstanding cyber sleuthing Chen, you really are a wizard.
Big h/t to ISTE. If you see him, give a fist bump.
I will! This should be tweeted to all of the usual suspects.
He’s not even a master of deception.
After this he may be a master of depression tho’
So is there any way to find out how many actual tweets that stupid “fact checking” bulshytt got?
What a liar. Like an article with 20 comments got thousands of tweets.
Good work. May your shame be great, Chunk.
Whoops! That post wasn’t the “20-comment wonder”. How many fake retweets did that one get?
In any case he’s an inept liar.
here it is: http://lgf.bz/mPM0dj+
550 “clicks” (fake retweets)
12 legit tweets (according to the page) LOL
Inept … at just about everything it would seem. He’s the Super Dave Osborne of the blogosphere.
yea, I just checked, and we’re up to 57 “tweets” on that old 2007 thread, just for clicking on the link here. LOL
Seriously, let’s see if we can get it up to 100+.
http://lgf.bz/alUUat <–click here!
Ha! its up to 74!
I just gave 50. It’s at 104 now.
106!
119!
Do you like this post better instead of the DoD filler threads? We’re trying to make it a pleasant experience for you here.
This just illustrates his incredible hubris. He knows he is being fact checked relentlessly, but continues down this path. I don’t know what to make of it.
He’s a tweeter weener.
tweeter peeter?
He’s tweeterpeeted with a lot of young girls…
He can never admit he’s wrong, so it will be interesting to see how he tries to spin this other than calling people liars or creeps.
“And I’d have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling stalker kids!”
Any time jazzy cites a number we can be assured that it’s been enhanced by a factor of at least 10. SCIENCE!
Its now up to 104, unreal!
You DoD guys always deliver. I love this blog.
I don’t know what to make of this level of dishonesty. It’s stunning, staggering.
No, That’s just Chuckles! Coming this fall to the WB.
It is dismissive, as if common users of the internet couldn’t figure this one out. It speaks to a great (undeserved) arrogance. What an asshole!
LOL we’re at 108: http://lgf.bz/alUUat
1000 or bust!
I wonder how much traffic we send to his blog? I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if we weren’t his biggest “customers”, LOL we keep him afloat!
We sure are!
This is hilarious.
Charles: “Wow, my twitter statistics on this explanation post about the phallus on the menu are incredible. Triumph! Everybody is following my posts. ”
What a fraud.
LOL
He sure was proud of the “retweets” when he was probably inflating it himself, repeatedly.
“I’ll show ‘em” *click* *click* *click*
Click it now!
My bad!
I guess we should’ve known since it’s obviously been designed to “look” like a twitter button but it isn’t *really* an official twitter button. Or is it?
I often wonder if his obsession with designing his own look and feel to the site is so that it mimics other webtools but isn’t really verifiable (viewcounter, I’m looking at you). I guess the only question, Chen, is if that this kind of fraudulent behavior is something that Blogads should know about?
well, for all intents and purposes, the “t” icon itself works great as a twitter button. Like I said, it pulls up the box with the url and hashtags and everything. Works just like our button here. Better even.
It’s the counter that’s a complete joke.
The counter blogads would be very interested in. I know for 100% certainty that they’ll give you the boot for encouraging users to click the ads for the sake of it.
Wonder what the policy is on false statistics?
Oh and that’s my point exactly. He’s added a design feature to post a number (associated with a recognizable Twitter logo) next to an icon that is fraudulent.
It might be that his comment was a sneaky way to admit it, but nevertheless, he’s using that counter as a “retweet” number and that’s probably litigious on Twitter’s behalf.
he’s using the “T” to legitimize what is obviously fraud.
Maybe Chuck should see if there’s a bed open at Weiner’s rehab, the Home for Compulsively Self Destructive People
What does he think he gains by these lies? Money? Popularity? Fake is fake.
Anyone looking at the comments can tell his little cult is stagnant.
It’s all about appearances. The best hope for chucky is if someone were to drop by who has never heard of him.
Oh, and another thing, Chen. I mentioned before if we could definitively say chuck was lying about something–this would be it. No programmer/coder could say “I’ve got 1800 retweets on this so far” when he knows, definitively, that this isn’t the case.
As a matter of fact, maybe Breitbart should know exactly how many tweets about his “fact check” were actual tweets–not minion clicks LOL!!
There’s no way he could set this up like this without knowing exactly how he’s fucked it up for tracking clicks instead of retweets. No way. Can’t happen on accident.
Good thing CJ never reads here. He might be embarrassed.
Or try to cover his tracks.
To be embarassed, you have to possess pride. Chunks went out with the bathwater a long time ago.
Absolutely awesome. Great job. He is caught flat out lying.
Sorry to any of you that are Canucks. But the Boston Bruins will win the Stanley Cup tonight!11!!ty
The cup goes to BOSTON!! You know they wont sing” the song” in Vancouver.
But I love that dirty water: Oh, Boston, you’re my home.
Woohoo Go Bruins.
Who will be the first swamp cultist to bring this up? I see a meltdown coming. Paging Emperor, come in. Looks like a downfall parody will be needed.
Heh, I just posted a comment as you said that.
Great minds think alike XD
That’s the key point. It looks and feels the same as an authentic Twitter button / site addon, but it’s in fact a fake tracker made by Charles.
Uh yeah, and the fact that it was hiding under our noses was that Chuck put it next to something we consider legitimate on it’s face. His comment disclosure is a shitty red herring. He’s obviously hocking it as the real thing with AB.
Ouch!!
Great work BRC
This is gonna leave one Hell of a (skid)mark
Oh, yeah, exactly. Charles can quibble about what the meaning of “pageview” is for hours and hours, but the word “retweet” is very, very specific.
It means that somebody specifically A) Viewed the page, and B) Clicked the “retweet” button on the page and posted it on their Twitter feed. For each person that does that, the feed should increase by one. But in this case, if someone retweets it and posts it on their feed, and that retweet gets, say, 5 clicks – the counter will increase by SIX, not one. That’s a huge difference.
Not to mention the fact that it is, as you say, it’s a flat out lie. Charles can argue about the meaning of “pageview”, but he knows for a fact that his Twitter counter does not count “Retweets”. It actually has nothing to do with Twitter. It’s a fraud, a lie, and it’s not just that, but a blatant, obvious one.
Another great hit on Charles from the Boiler Room. That one is one I could have never thought about doing, since I assumed it was an authentic Twitter app.
Well, yeah, but I did wonder about the numbers. Two dozen frequent commenters, but hundreds of people retweeting his crap? Didn’t add up.
The funny thing about this is that just about anyone understands what a retweet is versus a click tracker, so he’s going to be extremely hard pressed to pass this off as a casual fuck up on his part without looking completely inept. If he does go that route, be prepared for another round of everyone trying not to mention the stupidity on display, much like the menu sandwich board laptop. DURRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr
By the way, since some of those articles that became “hits” on Twitter, or at least so Charles claimed, got 100,000+ views according to him. That seemed plausible when they got 3,000 Retweets, but 3,000 clicks? No way. Looks like his pageview fraud is still alive and well.
Someone with Twitter should tweet this to
Breitbart
Adam Baldwin
Stranahan
Dana Loesch
Patterico
and anyone else he’s called a fraud or a moron lately.
I agree. It is time to roll out the artillery on this one. He’s quick to call people morons and creeps, and then point to his “retweets” as some kind of validation, SO … you know what to do.
Foster is ahhsome.
I can’t wait for the opportunity to finally get on THAT blog. My socks are all wet thinking about it.
I wish I could buy a round for the BRC. This is too fucking awesome. I’m totally LMAO
weaselzippers is tweeting it to all of the heavy hitters….accountability indeed.
Rock on. What goes around, comes around.
I keep wondering if CJ is merely a shitty programer cum nitwit, or he’s being actively deceptive.
Thanks to Chen, ISTE, and the rest of the BRC for putting this to rest.
I’m sorry I’ve ever doubted you, oh great Mouse-K-Maniac
The clue to that is in the answer to the question: “do the errors all go in one direction?”.
Ding!!!!
Probably both actually. But on this, intentionally deceptive.
I’d say actively deceptive. He had the forethought to post his compricated pran before he made his fraudulent claims. He now can defer back to the comment in court if he really was busted. He’s stupid, but he’s not that stupid.
There are many holes in the LGF code, but this is intentional. By passing off clicks as retweets, he’s being deliberately disingenuous.
Note that the link is actually from bit.ly, not Twitter. You don’t have to be on Twitter to click on a bit.ly link.
And the Super Dave Osborne of the Blogosphere fucks up again in spectacularly LOL fashion. Get ‘em y’all.
I’m just a D-list blogger. I didn’t even make the C-list.
Poor Dark Falcon. His bruises just healed from the Menu-Board-Defense Incident.
“Bad DF! I told you not to let me mess up my twitter counter!”
“{charles} I’m so sorry. Look what they made you do”
He can’t argue about the meaning of a retweet when it’s in the stats for all to see. He especially can’t argue it when he, himself, told his minions that what he was doing was not a “retweet” as he mentioned in his comment. To “tweet” to Breitbart and outright lie about how many “retweets” he had, knowing better, is a fucking lie. He is a fucking liar.
That’s the bottom line. He has no defense at all here, so he’ll pull the creep card, and block/ban anyone that mentions this.
It is funny because he’s owned by the very service he used to perpetrate the deception, and once you examine it, it can only be construed as fraud. There is no other purpose for setting it up this way.
Obama’s arguing about the meaning of “war”. This is kid stuff.
Chen = Genius
(Chen + BRC) = Genius
You have always been on my page in the past spaceallah, and here we agree again. His dishonesty and lying is on display–on his frontpage. No programmer/coder would admit to happenstance clicks to his site as legitimate retweets. Much less on a webtool knockoff you designed yourself, unless you intentionally meant to deceive people.
Yep. This is cut and dry. There is no defense other than ‘shut up.’
The key point is the fact that he deliberately attempted to pass it off as an official Twitter component, and not something he had made up. If he made it, it should have been made clear.
You’re still relevant, Chunky. As a sad warning. A bad example. Kinda like Dan Rather, except he once had a real career.
Listen to the ghost, Chuck, befoooooooore it’s toooooooooooo laaaaaaaaaaaate!
You have to keep updating the test link to show it jumping, maybe every 50 or so “tweets” post a new screen shot so people see it chronologically ? Just a suggestion.
good idea
“But, Charles. Look-I defended you!”
But you zards have proof of AGW, huh, lion?
It’s not butthurt when you have webstats (mind you, ones that are easy to see and discern) to reference. Chuck has been hung by his own lies quite definitively.
Hi dork!
Except … oh … I don’t know … reading comprehension and … erm … stats from Bit.ly itself.
You’d have to be pretty fucking dense not to understand this.
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The retweet stats come directly from bit.ly’s API.
I have much better things to do with my time than worry about their latest idiotic smears.
“The retweet stats come directly from bit.ly’s API.”
Actually to be honest, this sentence should be:
“The click stats come directly from bit.ly’s API.”
He is going to use the ignore it and hope it goes away strategy. BUSTED!
Dark Falcon needs to get off his knees and wipe the jazzy jizz of his face. Be a man, not someone’s doormat.
And we’re not “accusing” him of anything. It’s a FACT.
That he attempted to do when he made his initial comment about it. What he posted to AB afterward was just an outright lie…One he admitted to when he updated his minions.
The felcher speaks:
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I see that some of our haters (including hater site Weaselzippers) are now accusing Charles of lying about retweets from LGF. As usual they have no hard evidence, just supposition and a burning butthurt conviction that Charles is both a “liar” and a “failure”. When I see someone obsessively studying someone else’s site stats, I think that they are in desperate need of a life.
I guess that means businesses that want to buy web ads need a life.
All that means is that he’s too stupid to understand what was written.
Pretty much. He’s on the playground and hasn’t come into school for the lesson yet.
http://www.andmagazine.com/content/uploads/obsession__3.jpg
Just the fact that the bloated loser needs to constantly point to his rigged tweets and clicks screams just how immature and insecure he is.
He stabbed all his buddies in the back, became a classic left wing moon bat, and all his stats are down by 80% from his heyday.
And that’s the sad reality for the corpulent blogger.
Great work Chen. I think your picture and home address will get posted again, soon. Lol Bravo
Clock ticking down to “…they’re all Serbian genocide deniers over there…”
Yes, he views that as his ace in the hole. But when he pulled it out against Breitbart and Baldwin they were just like WTF dude you’re nuts. Nobody knows about that, nor cares.
Only if war carried a declaration date page and stats page on the web afterward. haha
…”So before Johnson embarrasses himself further,”…(too late)… “we’ve decided to keep CJ honest.”
(Good luck on that, let us know how it works out. I’ll check with Chunk just to make sure y’all get it right.)
Oh…Dork Foulcum. How’s that “mountain lion” thing doing for you? Like they say in Missoula, “once a cat…always a pussy.
Hey, Dark Falcon …
Your hero Charles is a fucking Stalker.
Just so you know.
Congrats on another brilliant smackdown, Chen Zhen, and congrats to you Boston Bruins fans.
Dark Falcon is a shell of a man. Whatever it takes to keep your posting rights, right champ?
amazing
He comes over, see’s with his own eyes Charles blatantly caught with his pants down and exposed as a liar & fraud once again, and his response is that we are pathetic for noticing
Actually he was too dumb to comprehend what was being discussed. This site must read like Charlie Brown’s teacher for him.
“They were saying something, but I couldn’t quite understand what it was.”
Get out the crisis hotline number, DF:
Damned straight. People don’t just stalk THEMSELVES, you know. Someone has to do it.
/here’s a finger for ya, Stalker Charles
Yes, the stats come from bit.ly. But they way you are portraying them, the way you are presenting them, is fraudulent.
This isn’t an idiotic smear. This is outright fraud and him shitting in his pants that his scheme has been busted.
Charles: “*&^%&, DF. Now you’ve made me spill my Cheetos!”
DF (sobbing): I’m so sorry. I’ll get you some new ones. Just don’t be mad at me.”
Such as?
Trying to pick a fight with Andrew Breitbart and/or Adam Baldwin, lose because he came unarmed to a battle of wits, and then claim victory because he has a bit.ly link that has about 2,000 of his own clicks assigned to it and call that “retweets”
The Moses of the blogosphere has spoken:
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The retweet stats come directly from bit.ly’s API.
I have much better things to do with my time than worry about their latest idiotic smears.
What’s idiotic is attempting to pass off clicks as “retweets.” That’s pretty fucking dumb, dude.
Always did think it was curious how he claimed so many re-tweets, when major news organizations weren’t getting nearly that many.
What a lying piece of shit. And of course, now he isn’t going to concern himself with it all, because he has better things to do.
Really? Like what, you fat piece of lying shit?
“See, Charles. I knew they were wrong. I knew it. You’re so wonderful.”
There are four lights.
How many fingers, Winston?
WTF! He’s advocating frog murder!!! Didn’t he get the memo when Beck assassinated that rubber frog?
Bet he calls it a night before Killgore gets in.
Dork, your real-life daddy, you know, that fearsome man who makes you feel small and weak, wouldn’t like to know you stick up for a liberal fraud and a fool. Go get a life and stop lying to yourself.
Cain toad? You mean the Caine Mutiny?
We’re coming up on a banning…I can just sense it.
That’s incorrect. It is not the Twitter traffic. It is the amount of times someone clicked on the bit.ly URL. That could come from anywhere, which is why adding the “+” after the URL provides the hardcore ownage.
Own your deception, CJ. You lied. Retweets died. LMAO
CJ lied. Retweets died.
ROFL spaceallah. Very good.
Wait, did he just fact check himself?
He quoted himself without explaining how what he is doing is deceptive, and apparently no one over there is either bright enough or has the balls to call it like it is.
I’d love to sit down to a political discussion with CJ. I bet I could have an egg timer countdown to the time that he flips out and tries to throw a chair or turns the table over and “flounces” out because he cannot take a differing opinion nor can he stand NOT to be in control.
Which is kinda weird when you think about it, because moving to Twitter was a really dumb move for him since he can’t police what everyone else says.
Yes, we noted that post, Chunk. And the we noted this lie:
“Now at 1800 retweets: Fact Checking Breitbart’s Lies on the Leaked Photo”
See that? Where you said “retweets”? Not the same as clicks from a URL, you programming god.
Busted.
If you call a dog’s tail a leg…
And if you call a menu board a laptop…
He is stone cold busted and will seek the coward’s way out by claiming ignorance instead of saying he was WRONG. He’s like the Fonz because he couldn’t admit he was wrong either, but that’s where that comparison begins and end. HEH
Kk, I’m vindicated.
Good lap dog
Thing is, what he is showing is not the retweet numbers. Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Intellectual curiosity and testicular fortitude are two things seriously lacking over there.
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The retweet stats come directly from bit.ly’s API.
I have much better things to do with my time than worry about their latest idiotic smears.”
The part that didn’t show…
“Thanks Dork. For having my back I’ll give you a ‘heads up’. Wait for it. Waaait for it. Oh! Here it cums! Take it like a mountain lion! That’s it! Growl! Keep Growling! Oh! Take it like a man! Take it like a man! Oh. Like Andy. I blew up in your face. Your the best conservative I’ve got. Now sign the fuck out and go to fucking bed! I’ll expect you here tomorrow.”
There’s not enough brain bleach in the world…
/huurl
Dork just sent every pair of Lizard eyes over here to check out how Charles is rigging the numbers. Very funny.
One would think it was almost intentional, but I think it is the only way the guy can get any attention at all that doesn’t result in 100% negative feedback for his participation other than announcing he’s going to bed, which even that sometimes draws the occasional downding,
All one has to do is add the little “+” to any bit.ly url to check the stats for themselves. All it takes is reading comprehension and maybe enough brainpower for a light bulb.
Light bulb?
You denier!
Charles is awfully quiet.
Perchance, is he doing some quick reprogramming of certain areas of his site?
He’s either recoding it and will try to pass it off as his failure to understand the bit.ly API ( LMAO ) or he’s hoping if he lies low it will just fade away. Otherwise he has some ‘splainin’ to do.
Just fade away? With us around?
Mwahahahaha…
While he seethes.
This one really hurts because he was “bit” (ly) by hand that was feeding him on this one. Bit.ly’s own stats tell the tale.
Pretty much. It’s a fucking lie right on it’s face. How long ’til he addresses the frontpage? Fucking liar. He wasted not even an hour to address the merit of the discrepancy. Doesn’t read here my ass. He reads here by the minute.
I tried sticking up for Dark Falcon…. sincerely tried to give him good advice.
Of course, he ignored it.
Who cares?
I don’t.
Dark = dork
(Hey dork, do you even know what a dork is?)
hint…. it involves sitting in a bath tube loser.
I’m sure that Mad King Yertle will be glad to know that Good Huma Man Anthony Weiner’s in-laws appear to have some pretty close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood:
http://floydreports.com/weiners-in-laws-and-the-secret-muslim-brotherhood-connections-revealed/
That probably should be tattled.
Some dude got banned in the latest Janice Hahn thread. There was a big argument over several posts. It’d make perfect fodder for a DoD article. Paraphrased argument from that thread: “Gangsta rappers don’t represent all black people” “Yes they do!”
Looks like some lizards are displaying some suspiciously neo-confederate leanings. Banning forthcoming?
45/9119331
I feel a little icky now, because I just got the computer version of the game she’s talking about.
208/9119515
Speaking of the Mountain Lion ….Where’s Pink Flamingo when you need him?
Right. He hopes it will die out, but when he gets pummeled with this on Twitter, he’ll call all those folks “crazy creeps” and do the ‘haters gonna hate’ strut.
Chunkhole…. you are such a hopeless nitwit.
Keep up the good work!
Ya know…I suppose it is possible that CJ really does think that a click = retweet. I put that at like 5%, but it is possible, i guess.
I dunno, I ‘ve been hanging out here for a while (you guys know that) and I know that CJ is smarter than that. He’s really not going to pull off the dumb act here, I swear.
Too much talk about custom domains and getting top tweets to plead ignorance. It is not going to work this time.
Yep. “Look at all the RETWEETS I’m getting! (Oops, I meant traffic. Shucks.)”
Not. Gonna. Fly.
Well, he might claim that he plugged the wrong thing in from the API, by mistake you see.
Pulling the dumb act is the only out he really has.
Other than claiming bit/ly’s API is squirrelly so he’s going to go with a handroll solution that is “better”
I bet he’s sitting on this thread looking for ideas for a way out here because based off of his Twitter interactions with conservatives he’s not a very bright guy or fast thinker.
I still fail to see how making fun of gangsta rap is “racist” unless you think all black people are really gangstas. Wouldn’t that be racist?
Brushing your teeth is racist.
Questioning the prez is racist.
LOL! Now at 332!
over 217,000 involved….
never truer words spoken (Chunky)…
“This is a serious psychological problem, and there are methods that can help people like this, if they want to be helped.”
Wow, Vancouver fans are rioting in the streets and burning cars and stuff! live stream
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8193381
Snow, did the Bruins lose?
by the way…. lets us tear into that sentence structure Chunk – shall we?
Okay…. use of commas….. when you use commas, you must understand that the portion of the sentence that is bracketed by commas is a portion of the sentence that can be (reasonably) deleted….
But in Chunky’s case…. well – it just won’t fly…
now will it?
“This is a serious psychological problem if they want to be helped.”
No. Really.
That makes sense.
Where did you get that? About commas, I mean. Because it’s crap.
using commas as he has…. that which I’ve said applies.
Yes, there can be other uses of commas…. but the way he has used them (in the above example and many others) I contend that what I have said is true.
Have a nice day!
(and why don’t you look at that fool sentence of his and tell me what it means already.)
There are scores of legitimate uses for the comma. Common BS from teachers about “putting them where you would take a breath” or your notion of deletions doesn’t begin to exhaust the subject. Just sayin’.
Writing by formula fails. Chunk is a very unimaginative writer, but he’s usually not awful formally. Just lame.
Speaking of punctuation oddities, I see you’re a friend of the variable-length ellipsis…
Just a casual observation.
After a certain site ripped Charles a new asshole for showing 20 articles on his front page to inflate his views counter he has now reduced that number back to 10.
Good damn thing no one (and I mean NO ONE) reads that ‘site’ from his site eh?
Amazing. We own him.
Because it would draw even more attention to the multiplier effect.
ROTFLMAO !
yes, we rule
Perfect updating on the initial story here. This demonstrates without a single doubt since there is not a single tweet to be found for the example chosen, yet what is commonly accepted as a Twitter Retweet user interface widget is showing 400 or so clicks that most people who have experience the Twitter Retweet UI widget would assume those to be RETWEETS.
Literally everyone else on the internet uses that UI widget for RETWEETS. But not CJ, because user interface conventions are a useful way to lie and then claim ignorance instead of intentional deception.
Pathetic. Again, there is no explanation for this.
Expect the “retweet” widget to be changed to something else by tomorrow that cannot be independently verified or tracked.
That Vancouver “riot” is a bit lame. Hell, they do better than that at Michigan State during Oktoberfest every year. Burn some shit, break something!
They can’t compare to Detroit’s or LA’s riots, but I am surprised.
Canadians riot politely.
This is painful to watch even from here. Good lord, you guys are devouring him.
I agree that writing by formula sucks.
BUT….
There are some rules of form that should be adhered to so that the writing stays within the realm of comprehension.
Quite frankly, Chunky and many others only have the ability to write in accordance with “the formula”.
You, on the other hand (Mr Faulkner) are one of few who are unimpeded by these “rules”…..
First you must learn the rules, then you may break them.
consider that comment “up dinged”
!!!
There’s a ton of work for you to do at Lyric Wiki.
E.g. “I can’t get
noany satisfaction.”I’d help. We could get a government grant. Call it Project Linguo. Fix rock & roll one lyric at a time…
Don’t you mean “… have only …” (rather than “…only have…”)?
(Misplaced adverbs – scourge of the modern age.)
Hmm, you guys see this chart: https://bitly.com/alUUat+
Referring SiteClick(s)
Email Clients, IM, AIR Apps, and Direct
509
diaryofdaedalus.com
141
weaselzippers.us
24
us.mc451.mail.yahoo.com
I wonder if a similar pattern holds true for the rest of the site.
[had to fix the "+", computers don't like the "+" - cz]
If you look at that famous 8000+ “re-tweet” post about Paul Revere you will see well over half of those clicks came from Facebook. I had a quick look but couldn’t find it there.
https://bitly.com/m7lOnW+
[fixed, as the WP Gods have it in for us - cz]
TBH, I have no idea what the stats mean.
Don’t worry!
I don’t think Charles does either
“Hmm, you guys see this chart: https://bitly.com/alUUat+”
At the top of that page it says
Conversations: Tweets 1
Is that # the true retweet count?
Yep, but that count cannot really be relied on as it seems bit.ly searches through jsut recent tweets to get that number.
On a fresh and shiny new post from LGF that count would reflect the number or times that URL was tweeted. But as we see Johnson does not use that number…..
that last post was for you Banshee.
And yes, I love variable length ellipsis……………..
They make the world an interesting place.
You guise our funny. Your giving me day jah view.
(That’s when Rastafarians take to much sacrament and subsequently see “Jah”.
oops!
Meant “two much”
Good night to old friends and to new ones also.
Awwww, the poor, fat baby just tweeted:
“If any journalist ever wants to do a piece on right wing harassment and stalking, I have a LOT of information I could give you.”
I really do wish a mainstream journalist would take him up on his offer. Then they could come and talk to us and we could explain in what ways Charles Johnson is a lying, cheating and dishonest fraud.
Yep, bring it on Johnson.
I love how he whines about Paulians running around padding internet polls, as though what he does with his own site stats isn’t pretty much the same damned thing.
He should learn to think before he tweets. Knee-jerk reactions are never good for people trying to cover things up. Idiot.
When did mocking and pointing out the lies and hypocrisy become stalking/ and harassment?
And his “coverage” of Pam Gellar is what then?
Translation: “If anyone wants personal information on people who call me on my bullshit–hit me up. I hate Chenzen and that godamn brc..”
Bingo.
Now THIS is something that actually IS worth retweeting, IMO:
Weiner is literally small potatoes. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton is the real headline grabber.
Chuck, wanting desperately to be heard by anyone, anyone at all.
“If only they would ask!” -Chuck.
Chen Zhen is right wing?
Look, when you act like an asshole towards thousands of people, and turn your backs on literally millions, people are going to hate you. This is pretty simple to understand. The thing is, CJ, you deserve everything that comes your way.
For someone that points the finger at the right wing to claim victimhood, he sure does revel in wrapping himself up in victimhood status as often as possible.
It can’t get much more ironic than that without it being intentional.
Lood approved medium-sized potatoes there St. Flapjack
Lgf stats are a sham of a sham of a sham.
It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.
True, though since I’ve been tracking them he’s gone from 10 to 12 to 15 to 12 to 20 and then back to 15 (articles on his front page), all on his own, over the last several months.
So, it could be coincidence.
Not that any of that makes his DIY ‘page view’ statistics for LGF any less inaccurate.
Or any more, even.
What a bizarre, transparently phony misrepresentation by Johnson of what a ‘retweet’ is.
Those numbers are actually accurate Page Views for those LGF articles as driven by the “Twitter-verse”.
When you see those numbers think “for all the (unknown) times this article has been Tweeted, that number is the actual number of times Tweets have resulted in Page Views for that article“.
Johnson’s ‘retweet’ numbers provide an unintentional, accurate, reality check for the grossly inflated Views statistics Johnson claims for each article, on the same page, ironically about an inch away.
Yes!!!!
http://ladyliberty1885.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/the-morning-links-616/
Thank you….
Busted.
I didn’t bust anybody!
That link popped up in the spam thing, and the reality of spam is not everything is spam.
The link on that site for the busted LGF tweet counter tracks back here.
Maybe I should have said LGF is busted. Oh well.
That is why I linked to that site because they linked to us.
I am going to bed. It was a long night shift….
How come when the “tweeter” link stats went from 675 to 1003 (+328) the article view counter only went up from 662 to 713 (+51)?
Shouldn’t they be the same?
Yea…that is a good question…
If the link shortener is configured as a reverse proxy that would explain it…
anyone notice the overnight thread was tweeted 999 times?
http://postimage.org/image/ar2f4hms/
It’s trending!
#Openthreadlgf is the topic of the hour
Great Success!
overnight thread hits 1000…
Every day, he gets a little closer to the straitjacket and the padded-room.
When did Charlie stop redirecting links from “bad” sites to silly pictures?
Media: Call Charles Johnson for information on his stalking. He doesn’t know left from right; just stick to stalking.
/waves at Dark Falcon and Stalker Charles
Ban me from the intrawebz, loserz.
Possible Ludwigg sighting on http://www.wattsupwiththat.com
On about the sixth thread down “All Three of these lines of reserch ,,,,”
There are about 380 post. A poster with nic of “moderate republican” comes on the thread and takes the AWG side and over plays just like Ludwigg, post anger stuff, lots of fluff stuff. Moderate Republican goes on to long to much and gets put in timeout by the mods on wattsup. Then a new poster appears and takes moderate republicans side and say the other posters and the mods were to hard on moderate republican.
Mods check, both have the same IP. Busted.
Very much like our Ludwigg.
Waves at Ludwigg.
Calm down Lud, the facts are cooling things down, relax guy, find a new cause.
The climate blogs are being targeted by sorosbots. They’re getting paid minimum wage to troll like that.
Over paid I would say.
Oh, and that’s definitely not Ludwig. MR has a kindergarten-level understanding of climate science, or at least what most of the words mean.
Dateline Today: Stalker Charles Johnson will prove that he’s always contended Rep. Weiner should resign, takes victory lap of approximately three feet before collapsing in a cloud of Cheeto dust.
He can avoid that cheeto plaque induced cheesy heart attack with soda chelation therapy administered by DR. Pepper.
Just don’t mix up the bottles.
This is classic:
“If any journalist ever wants to do a piece on right wing harassment and stalking, I have a LOT of information I could give you.”
He wishes to ban the people mocking him (from their own site — which he never ever reads) and criticizing his fraudulent claims.
You gotta love how this ‘Dark_Falcon’ is faithfully trying to reassure Charles about the functioning of his twitter traffic buttons. Hey guy: We showed here that a years old LGF post can get over a thousand twitter hits, according to Charles’ self-inflating readings, without being on twitter at all (or by one guy named ‘Gus_903′). That’s obvious fraud. Snap out of it, Falcon.
Hey, everybody! Weiner resigned today!
The scandal is what people of Johnson’s perceptive ability call a “nontroversy.”
Did you say Breitbart resigned? Another LGF #Victory over the Reich Wing!
Right down there with Rathergate (which I think was wrong) and Reutersgate (please forget about it and inteview me about the stalkers, Reuters! Please?)
“I belieeeeeve!”
http://postimage.org/image/ieqoihd0/
What a complete fool Charles has become. Blech.
Great work Chen. That’s another home run. Johnson will no doubt continue to cry that he’s been stalked and harassed by the “right-wing”.
Billions will Tweet!
Shhhh, don’t tell ‘em the truth… The loozards are already in line for a bad day when
BreitbartWeiner resigns.Bwhahahaha…..