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Topic: Bitcoin + Social Media + Viral Marketing + Political Warfare (Read 3002 times)

donator
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1014
Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
This is a killer app and will help Bitcoin. Kudos. I'm still not into twitbook, but it will be interesting to see how many people copy this idea.
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 102
Bitcoin!
Not a bad idea.
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1023
Democracy is the original 51% attack
UPDATE Dec 4: 

77 Tweets
35,152 Beaks Fed
68,955 Beaks Remaining (funds available)

This is just for the Newt video, and it's received 8 btc of donations to help perpetuate it.

If any of you have a message you'd like to promote, give it a try!
member
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hero member
Activity: 530
Merit: 500

Ehhh perhaps you aren't understanding the way it works =)  The Bitcoins are deposited by someone who creates the campaign. When users retweet the campaign, they're paid from those bitcoins based on the bitcoin address or email they've entered. If it's not a valid BTC address, the coins aren't sent. If it's the wrong email, coins will sit in BTCinch's system until they're claimed.

If a user sends btc to a new address or email and never does anything with them, then I suppose those coins are gone forever. But that doesn't hurt anyone except the person who forgot about them - all other coins become more scarce and thus more valuable in proportion.

aha, so messages are forwarded by people that want bitcoin,
say no more Smiley
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1023
Democracy is the original 51% attack
can bitcoins somehow end up being lost in all this ?

tweet gets somewhere unwanted,
or receiver does't know what it is,
or just forgets about it, discards it, never collects and so on ?

Ehhh perhaps you aren't understanding the way it works =)  The Bitcoins are deposited by someone who creates the campaign. When users retweet the campaign, they're paid from those bitcoins based on the bitcoin address or email they've entered. If it's not a valid BTC address, the coins aren't sent. If it's the wrong email, coins will sit in BTCinch's system until they're claimed.

If a user sends btc to a new address or email and never does anything with them, then I suppose those coins are gone forever. But that doesn't hurt anyone except the person who forgot about them - all other coins become more scarce and thus more valuable in proportion.
hero member
Activity: 630
Merit: 500
Posts: 69
tweet gets somewhere unwanted,
or receiver does't know what it is,
or just forgets about it, discards it, never collects and so on ?
These thoughts apply to every single marketing technique ever made.   Advertisements are a roll of a dice. 
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
can bitcoins somehow end up being lost in all this ?

tweet gets somewhere unwanted,
or receiver does't know what it is,
or just forgets about it, discards it, never collects and so on ?
Yes, which would be great. It would increase the value of Bitcoins for all of us.
hero member
Activity: 530
Merit: 500
can bitcoins somehow end up being lost in all this ?

tweet gets somewhere unwanted,
or receiver does't know what it is,
or just forgets about it, discards it, never collects and so on ?
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1023
Democracy is the original 51% attack
Erik,
You forgot to mention that you could have done all of this anonymously!
That way,  if Newt is elected president,  he won't know who to toss in jail for starting all those tweets.

Hehehehe yes anonymous for all the tweeters, but Newt will come after me as the site owner for sure  Wink
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1023
Democracy is the original 51% attack
Now we apply the same method to "Erik is a convicted felon". Are we trusting that people won't retweet things unless they believe in them, even when they're getting money for it?

This is exactly the way mass media works today.  They keep parroting the same lies because they know people will pay them (or their advertisers) to hear these things.



And perhaps that's why mass media is dying as an industry... moving to decentralized web media. People get sick of lies, and competition applies to mass media just as with everyone else. You can fool some people most of the time, or fool most people some of the time, but it's hard to fool all people all of the time =)
hero member
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Now we apply the same method to "Erik is a convicted felon". Are we trusting that people won't retweet things unless they believe in them, even when they're getting money for it?

This is exactly the way mass media works today.  They keep parroting the same lies because they know people will pay them (or their advertisers) to hear these things.

legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: Compromised. Thanks, Android!
This is amazing. Great job!
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1023
Democracy is the original 51% attack
This is a very exciting new thing!

Erik: It'd be nice to somehow be able to see how many beeks have already been fed for a specific campaign.

Agreed, for normal ads it doesn't really matter, but for charity drives or PR campaigns it is relevant. Will add that!

So far the campaign has been tweeted to 12,207 people, with funds remaining for another 54,000. A few more bitcoins donated and we'll reach the 100,000  Grin
donator
Activity: 362
Merit: 250
Awesome site!  Donation sent.  Smiley
vip
Activity: 1052
Merit: 1155
Erik,
You forgot to mention that you could have done all of this anonymously!
That way,  if Newt is elected president,  he won't know who to toss in jail for starting all those tweets.
hero member
Activity: 614
Merit: 500
Another suggestion: Could you make the links in the listed tweets clickable?
hero member
Activity: 614
Merit: 500
This is a very exciting new thing!

Erik: It'd be nice to somehow be able to see how many beeks have already been fed for a specific campaign.
hero member
Activity: 588
Merit: 500
Hero VIP ultra official trusted super staff puppet
I donated .788 BTC. You're the man, Evor.

Thanks!! Ron Paul told me he really appreciates it  Wink

Try to get Ron Paul at BitCon if you aren't joking. : P

 Roll Eyes
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
I donated .788 BTC. You're the man, Evor.

Thanks!! Ron Paul told me he really appreciates it  Wink

Try to get Ron Paul at BitCon if you aren't joking. : P
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