GTW Game XVII

zounds

Almost certainly not the linking word you’re looking for, but they are/were all Male…

Gorby didn’t like the fact that you spoke Russian,

They are all ‘men’ and a puppet :-)

notorious?
famous?
infamous?
renowned?
creepy?

Gee you last word didn’t need translation.

:mrgreen: INFAMOUS

Its hailing here.

I’d say you’re probably right, with “notorious”.

hmmm, is sockpuppet one word or two words :?:

Yeah, thanks. Infamous is usually used with negative connotations. Notorious can also be, but less so, it seems.

Nixon on Laugh In “Sock it to meee!”

CROOKS and hooks…LEADERS….War enders… :lol:

Paranoid

men of class; brave men with a following….the hulk :mrgreen: Joe and Dick…a basketball player? Men of many points…alter-boy(Stalin), Quaker(Nixon)….Please Marina just be happy…Jimmy Soul – If You Want To Be Happy
….they are all [BOSSY]

It seems like they are all narcissists or egotists.

I like your answer…Black Sabbath live

They all have “Illeism” in common…or referring to oneself in the third person.

:idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:
WE HAVE A WINRAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:wink: Hear is an idea of B Springsteen———MARINA—Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA
:smile:

Well done…nice catch.

Bruce Springsteen = win

I guess I reckon the word that describes them all is “Charismatic.” For a brief second I was thinking maybe it could be “Demagogue,” but that’s kind of hard to apply to Elmo and the Hulk. I think this version of the Guess the Word Game is a bit harder than one in which we get the basic parameters of the word. Kudos are due to you again, Ms. Orlova.

Good job! :mrgreen:
You nailed it pretty quick…

I believe you are correct, sir. And I read this after my own feeble guess of “charismatic.” It’s obvious, really. Now I just feel silly.

Dear Marina,
They are all notorious. “Notrious” may be the word.
GTW VII is Guess The Word Seven. For Seventeen, You need GTW XVII.
I hope you enjoy the Springsteen concert! :razz:
Seesixcm6

sweet! I was going to say “flamboyant”. – LOL
I thought Nixon was reported to have said
“I am not a crook” however, thegorn is
correct to say illeism, as one who speaks
of him/herself in the third person.
What is the word for the context of
third person invisible? That’s when you
talk to a person about another person
who is standing right there, as though
they were invisible (or not there).
just asking…
Hey! Marina! If you would like some ideas for
future lessons that allow you to role play,
I’ve thought of some based on retro TV shows…
I Dream of Genie…
(Marina in a harem costume – yeowza!)
La Femme Marina
(Marina is a hit{wo}man)
The XXX Files
(Agent Scully “I want to believe” – lol)
I bet these guys could come up with some I haven’t thought of…

Gollum: Sméagol… Why does he cry, Sméagol?
Smeagol: Cruel men hurts us. Master tricksed us.
Gollum: Of course he did. I told you he was tricksy. I told you he was false.
Smeagol: Master is our friend… our friend.
Gollum: Master betrayed us.
Smeagol: No, not it’s business. Leave us alone.
Gollum: Filthy little hobbites. They stole it from us.
Smeagol: No… No.
Faramir: What did they steal?
Gollum: Myyy PRECIOUSSS. :twisted:

:mrgreen: I guess the word illeism…. don’t read this… >>>wikipedia mentions your character choices<<<

My other guess the word…. is wrong… hunartdohofatiregebobfed:shock: :roll:

:mrgreen: Scary Kids Scaring Kids – Notorious Thugs
…crazy, more pop culture :lol:

Charisma

as thegorn said “Illeism”

Personae

This really isnt guess the word game 7 is it?

It should be XVII shouldn’t it?

Put more correctly… each one in your video is an illeist. :smile:

Marina, You were quite charismatic singing the Elmo song.

Sock it to me? :mrgreen:

Me Tarzan… Where Marina :?: :mrgreen:

Very cool :cool:
Frodo lives!

Jeorney thanksss Man with dark eyes :cool: … Gollum, Gollum :wink:

They are all “impersonations” by Marina?

Marina at concert, go see “The Boss”

They are all illeists as they refer to themselves in the third person. But now it is time for smokey36bear to turn in for the night for smokey has to work early in the AM

Bruce Springsteen – Good ape, Tarzan like :lol:

CHARISMATIC?

Seems like all the oily burritos, the slow-spoke Rodriguez, the asses, donkeys, old cars and such, even the bad mouthed P-Diddies and wolves have been left in the dust!!!

We are without a doubt on a much higher level now. Now we have the Flamboyants, the Leaders, the Genies, the La Femme, the Bosses, the War Enders, the Crooks, the Tarzans of the Apes, the Gollums, the Masters and the Smeagols.

Heck, let’s call it a Progress, Cha Cha!

illeists

Yes Cha Cha! Your bet was right! These guys came up with the Faramirs and the Paranoids! You didn’t think of these did you?

Ans: illeist (Hs4Mm will explain later why Hs4Mm did not like this _structure_ of the game).

illeist

Sorry, Marina, but I don’t believe this was one of your best videos. You could have done a lot better character work. Very disappointing. Maybe next time.

Now that you’ve seen Bruce Springsteen, who do you want to see?

Nice top Marina looking hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Interesting race going on… Ashton Kucher vs. CNN on race to 1 million followers on Twitter… follow it in real-time here: http://chartbeat.com/cnnvsashton/ and watch live video if you want: http://www.ustream.tv/ashton

Regarding rating 5 stars for Caesar’s love, it is not Caesar’s love that Hs4Mm wants to experience for real!

Hs4Mm would like to say that he realized after the edit window expired that the second “Hs4Mm” could have been replaced by “he”.

We are not impressed by such competitions.

I think it’s interesting to have a network (CNN) on TV live trying to get more followers than Ashton Kucher who is doing it from online only. And Ashton’s winning right now (by a 1,000). It’s interesting to see the real-time dynamic between the two numbers side by side.

Did you enjoy “The Boss”?

Also Britney Spears wants a million followers, and she’s really close to getting them too.
The idea of constant updates from the pop princess herself, will pretty much disintegrate most of the tabloid speculations of what she is doing right now.

Since she will be answering the Twitter question of “What are you doing?”, there won’t be any more reasons to bug her with that question any further. So for her it’s just a way to get some heat off her back, while getting monster publicity in return. I mean, 1 million followers… that’s got to count for something right? :-)

OH… I didn’t know that the competition was so ON between the two. Here’s a short video showing a [billboard] that says Follow ashton kutcher. I don’t even know what to say… what some people won’t do for publicity huh? :-)


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That were all the adjustments I could do in just 5 minutes :-)
Clearly, the comment box is not fit for ASCII art! :D

He’s done it hasn’t he! Way to go Ashton :!: :lol: one million gain, a Twitteraire extraordinaire acomplishment :!: :wink:

Way to put Gorby in his place!
Hilarious! :-)
I wonder if he got the message though…

Yeah, the five minute editor is tricky.
You may want to use the learn/practice here page to work out the spacing. You will need to use dots (periods) for the preceding spaces; ballpark guess and edit until the appearance is what you’re looking for.
Then, copy/paste the result. :mrgreen:

ye, ye… you’re right, I should have done that… but I’m in a hurry, because I’m leaving for the weekend soon.
My Twitter bird on billboard fail, isn’t that bad, is it? :D

Anyway, sometimes just the intention matters most, right? ;)

Excellent! Marina’s lessons get the creative juices flowing, and instead of arguing partisan politics, we can all get along and have fun.
We used to do this every day… :mrgreen:
OH! Another idea!
Marina as Lucille Ball!
“Lucy, I’m home! Come keess leetle Reeky” – LOL!

Good Night peeps

I’m guessing it’s icons! I love how you sang as Elmo!I used to watch Sesame Street all the time when I was a lot younger! I’m looking forward to what’s on tap on my side for this weekend! I’m off to shoot some games of 8-ball pool on Yahoo.com. Hagn everyone! :wink:

Andreas Bocelli sings Goodnight, to Elmo

Jane come
We go now
Ungawa!

Illeist

Julius Caesar, the first and perhaps best-known illeist, in The Gallic War.

Joseph Stalin often referred to himself as “us”, “we”, or “Stalin”.

Comics character The Hulk is famous for referring to himself in the third person in well-known phrases such as “Hulk smash!”

Shaquille O’Neal refers to himself by his numerous nicknames.

Richard Nixon often referred to himself as “The President”.

Elmo from Sesame Street refers to himself in the third person. In response to the challenge that this will not teach children proper English usage, the Sesame Workshop states that this behavior “mimics the behavior of many preschoolers”.

All this in order to please our teacher, for she said “HotForWords will be viery happy if you get this right!”(no typo, that’s what she said :D )
Though it wasn’t hard, because it wasn’t even Wikipediaproof©, not to mention Googleproof®. :-)

OK, I’m off to the mountains, for the weekend! Be good, and be sure to take notes with indigo copy paper, and pass me a set when I return. :-)

Happy Easter!

Another EXCELLENT example of YOU.

Another entry to the Body of Work.

Watched your Fan video from Andrew at YT. If he would watch 91 Educational Videos in a day, and I’ll bet that’s not uncommon for a new Student, and you have like 420 right now – so he can keep tuning in…how many could he watch in a lifetime?

A lot – I’ll wager…

You have nothing to worry about with YouTube – everything I see works to your favor!

I’ll post something on that tomorrow from a Statistician’s perspective.

Thanks Marina!

Jody

egotistical, narcissism or oxymoron …? I want my goldfish and SeaMonkey too! :razz:

My guess would be egotism

HotForWords: Defining Ad-diction. :wink:

“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.” – Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.

I was thinking tonight about the word Agnostic, and wondering if it should be pronounced with a Silent G like in Gnostic.

Word request: [facade]

I was watching a TV show called ‘One on One’ and they used the word facade. I hear this word often and I use is it often. But what I find interesting is that it is used to describe someone making a false image of them selfs to make one look favorable.

Here is what I found at The Dictionary dot com site:

Facade

fa·çade also fa·cade (f-säd) n.
1. The face of a building, especially the principal face.
2. An artificial or deceptive front: ideological slogans that were a façade for geopolitical power struggles.

Has no reference to false image people portray. What gives?

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Yes, this was very fascinating to watch David and Goliath with David winning. Yahoo listed this news item on their front page and here is the AFP news article,
“Actor Kutcher out-tweets CNN in online battle”

Hi, will this be a problem for YouTube, The Pirate Bay hit with legal action

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7219802.stm

Best regards,
Mats

http://hotforwords.se

CJ Look in another dictionary :idea:

It takes a “Red Dog” to make Marina toe the line.

Idunno. A false image of themselves could be ‘an artificial or deceptive front’. Thats just my opinion and I can change it if you want me to. :mrgreen:

CNN loses… again :oops:

No such thing as bad publicity

Down in ‘Jungle Land’?

‘Charlies Angels’. Marina is so versatile she could play all 3 girls AND Charlie on the speakerphone! :cool:

I have the word for Stalin: Shit.

They are/were all well known?

Exactly, a word that describes them all is “famous”, but I’m sure that’s not what she’s looking for.

the correct answer is my bitches :razz:

matsrg. did you create the hotforwords.se website?

well wrote…. :oops:

I am going to guess icon or show boater. Hugs and Kisses to the Teacher.

How many tweets could a twitter twit twat if a twitter twit could twat tweets. :lol:

ПРИВЕТЧИК дорогая!!! я ни доверяю никому :lol: anyway i think that almost all of these people (i just have some doubts about Nixon though). :neutral: could be defined as charismatic,a word i requested a loooong time ago… :cool: however i think that you thought about something much more difficult :!:

Это наверно не хватит но я с тобой согласен!

Yes Marina, I really hope you dont mind :???:
It is in Swedish and no bad publicity at all.

Best regards,
Mats

Jack the word your looking for may be “persona”

The answer is . . .

illeist, or one who refers to themselves in the third person.

I would have also liked to have added Geraldo Rivera, Karl Malone, and Flavor Flav (Yeah Boy!).

Good one, my teacher.

E

Reminds me of a book I partially read, “The Hero with a thousand faces” a comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell.

Its like a front or mask we all project. Often, it can be deceptive mask, I agree. Sometimes the mask works against the wearer.

Creepy, that you would link that to my post, good singer though.

Ungawa need these []. Tarzan always miss Miss :cry:

Only two words come to mind, they are either :cool: Narcissistic or :cool: Egotistical or both.

Chiselstone

Hi Marina, Im glad I found your page, I also like to know the beggining of words :smile: , I do it a lot, in spanish of course, and a lot comes from Latin, and I find particulary fun that many words are almost the same in spanish and english, like Car = Carro or Pant = Pantalón, you already explain this last one!! hehe!! May be you can do a Show about Words in English that comes from Swedish, after all, England was once ocupated by Vikings from Scandinavia!!

псевдоним? pseudonym?

[rigmarole]

I should have posted this above where you say “good night”, but the link was closer associated with Elmo – so, I posted it here

Marina,

I was wondering if you could tell me what your research uncovers about [drug store cowboys]? I’m not sure if it is a derogatory term or not. I presume it means a “want to be” cowboy, or someone who dresses like a cowboy, but has never sat a horse.

Love your appearances whenever I manage to catch them on O’Reilly.

Dave

Interesting field! I’m linked – apparently – to the Vikings, via Normandy. Odard, a cousin of William the Conqueror, settled in Duntune (O.E. Domesday Book), from which my surname is derived. It roughly means Farmstead-by-a-hill.

The coat-of-arms is preety dandy too. Marina has a interesting ‘Orlova’ one HOTFORWORDS SHIELD. :grin:

HERALDIC SYMBOLS

Hello Marina, I’m just curious as to the origin of the word, well, [niggardly]… Wondering if you’d be able to help me out…

Thanks

Be realistic if you do it.

I mean best of luck, but if you can make a video describing that word’s origin… That… That would rule.

:D

“Muppet”

An incompetent or foolish person. (the suggestion being that he or she cannot function without someone else operating them like a Muppet)

Drugstore Cowboy is a movie about prescription drug addicts who rob drug stores, presumably in a cowboyesque fashion. I think that’s pretty much the origin and meaning of the phrase. Hope that helps in case Marina doesn’t get around to it.

Pseudo=fake, but appearing real
nym (I’m not sure what the actual Greek word is though) = name

=>Not somebody’s real name, although it’s phoniness is not obvious.

We? You must be fishing for a response from aLx.

I’d like to request the word [viscosity]

Hs4Mm would like to keep all comments to GTW-17 illeistic, but made a mistake in the above instance; that’s all. What does “fishing for a response” mean and who is aLx? All Hs4Mm could find for aLx was this.

Thanks, for your response but I’ve read the term used long before the movie in the 50′s and 60′s. So, I believe it has another association or meaning. Are you perhaps, thinking of the movie “Midnight Cowboy,” about drug addicts in New York city made back in the late 60′s or early 70′s?

Hi Marina!

It’s good to see you and hear from you again, and as always you deserve 5 stars or more.

The word that describes all these people is vain.

Hope you have a great weekend!

They would all be illeists. They speak of themselves in the third person. The funny thing, I also do this when speaking to my grandkids. I will say “Papa wants to …” or “You can use Papa’s computer.” Somebody also does this on this website, but doesn’t do it anywhere else. Mebbe Somebody has multiple personalities. :???: Or mebbe somebody is just plain bonkers. :roll:

I believe the word that describes them all is

FAMOUS or INFAMOUS for a few of them.

I would like to request the words/phrases:

[Marmaduke][pass muster][Larger than life]

[Megamillions] Mega is a Greek prefix meaning Millions. [Megamillions] are infact [Trillions]

[I WOULD LIKE YOU TO RECORD PROGRAMS ABOUT PREFIXES]
[Pro-, con-, in-, dis-]

Lady Marina (as HotForWords) has already made it into the defintion for illeism on Wikipedia. :cool:

Greetings madam Orlova;

I would like to know why the prefix [Jack] has been associated with so many words and phrases. These include:

[Jack Mormon][Jackfruit][Jack Rabbit]

She will be. Good luck with everybody else :twisted:

Che is sometimes guilty of illeism :mrgreen:

BillyB was properly offended by the all encompassing inclusion
that the word “we” implies.
When one goes fishing, one does not know what one will drag up
from the depths when one uses the “we” bait :roll:

“Drugstore Cowboy” IS a movie with Matt Dillon.It isn’t what this term is about. A drugstore cowboy goes back to the time when all the young people hung at the drugstore. If you dressed up like cowboy and you where at the drugstore you probably weren’t much of a cowboy. So, a d.c. is somebody who dressed a part, acted like a badass, but was a , uumm, not a very tuff guy! :roll:

So when you going to join us on Twitter?

Open an account do a search for Chevolay, look at who I follow and you will see some familiar faces. :shock:

Steel (in Rossinsky)

illeist? I think thats it.

I’m going to take a wild shot at this and I’m going to guess is the word you’re looking for:
(UNIQUE)

Hey Marina! That’s a very cute impression of Elmo

Take care sweetie

From David

Thanks. That falls in line with what I thought it might mean.

It’s simple economics: if “WE” didn’t pay full “WE”-tail, then “WE” don’t get no “WE”-bait!

If intelligent extraterrestrial beings arrived on planet Earth and asked for a meeting, who would we send forth to serve as our ambassador? Believe it or not, the favorite choice, as determined in an Internet poll, was heavy metal musician and TV
personality Ozzy Osbourne.

Let’s pick Marina instead!!! :grin:

[Jack-o-lantern]

Rigamarole is just the path of balderdash.

M has been a sweet dish for a long time. :roll:

The answer is “”"”"illeism”"”"”, but I think that also a correct answer would be “famous people”, if you go out to the street and ask the same question I think everybody would answer “famous people” or something that has to be with fame.

Well it’s my opinion…

[Jack Shit]

Is it, perhaps, illeism?

[jack knife]

Are you going to start uploading a new vid every day now Marina?

HAHA someone at youtube said the thing they all had in common?

Answer: Inbred?

somebody thinks the answer is illeist

[Jack & Jill]

[Jack and the Beanstalk]

[jackhammer]

[Jackpot]

“Jack” means “male”

I would like to request the word [Antidisestablishmentarianism]

Nevermind, you did it already! My bad! :P

:arrow: Janis Ian – Society’s Child :lol:

…dropouts and wine drinkers talking to themselves…

:oops: Broken Promises Janis Ian :wink:

The king’s…house breeding ***1*** effing…work that is maid up^^^^^^^^^^

Hey I got one :!: INVADE- from the latin (invidia) which means to envy. Kinda self explanatory but I still wanna a gold star from Marina, the Captain or Cha-Cha (when he calms down)! Thank you :smile:

For HULK SMASH, five stars or five thunderclaps? — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShZrVG_tYU4

Illeism!!! I think that is the word…if I’m not too late!!

[Illeism]

Marina, what came first? [orange] or orange? What I mean is… was an orange name after the colour orange? or was the colour orange named after the orange?

Outstanding appearance on O’Reilly. You have the prettiest “beef” anywhere on the net :lol: .

I would like to request the phrase [one fell swoop]. It’s one of those phrases that everyone instinctively knows, but where the heck did it come from? I heard it the other day and thought you might be able to help.

it probably is illeism,but I already guessed unique

I would like to know how someone gets [bamboozled]

LOL! My family got kicked out of Scotland for siding with William Wallace in the fight for F-R-E-E-D-O-M! :mrgreen:
Looks like I may be repeating history, by being outspoken here…

[concubinage]

【ツ】I have an announcement to make. It’s Cha Cha’s birthday. He’s a 154 years young. Why did I just type that? The phase ‘years young’ doesn’t really make it sound that much younger. Though it would be better to say ‘He has 154 years of experience. He then must be an expert in field of whatever he is expert at.’ :lol: :lol:

Anywho, I hope you all wish him a happy B-day! I think he could use some happy words. :mrgreen:

:mrgreen: HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHA CHA :!:

When people harvested crops with scythes, they would try to get the most with “one fell swoop”

Hi, I know the definition of this word, but have forgotten the word, for I only heard it once. The definition is [a word which means the opposite of itself]. Erudite is example of this work, it means, Highly educated and it can also mean uneducated. Thank you in advance.

Off to the kitchen to perform ‘culinaryligus’ :shock:

{Che the sexual epicurean}

Is that like saying “This pie is bad” but you really mean “This pie is good” :???:

Or using a word to be sarcastic. {sarcasm}

What happened to the rate of views when the title and still-image were made hulkish on YT? Why doesn’t the still image look hulkish here? Can actually see two titles on YT “My blood is boyle ‘ing” and “Hulk smash”!

[sangwich]

As it stands now I don’t think anyone has come up with the correct word for this guess the word game yet.

I think the answer has something to do with stirring a “reaction” either in others, or in one’s self, etc. As in the incredible Hulk’s case he was affected by gamma ray radiation and was chemically altered which caused fits of anger to Dr. Bruce Banner which then transformed him into a raging behometh or something of that nature.

“Reactionary” could be the word

[ghillie suit]

I thought he was pissed because his old lady was not only leaving him but for a younger man. He said he was gonna do an O.J on that ass :idea: … my bad, wrong Hulk :oops:

Scottish lords used to have people who looked after all of the game on there land called Ghillies.When they would go hunting or looking for poachers(which was a very serious crime) they would make up a suit much like the ones you see today.

It’s probably more about whatever it takes to keep that reality show from slipping off the ratings chart and down the drain than actual domesticated abuse.

Marina, thou knowst, dontst thou, that 29.1 est example of nosism and this est example of tuism? And all this is very enallage (which does not mean causing an engorgement of certain body regions). Perhaps we should engage in some pluralis auctoris, pluralis modestiae or pluralis maiestatis? I just saw you released the answer … got to go there!

Just avoid people with nicknames such as Longshanks or hammer-of-the-Scots, and you’ll be ok :wink:

Question: [colour] vs [color] Why are they spelled different yet mean the same?

I also would like to know why! My life would be more complete if I knew the answer to this puzzling question.

Signed

Mr. Meoff

Easy :)
Blame Noah Webster (he of US Dictionary fame). When he was compiling his spelling book, he deliberately changed the spelling of some English words to free them from their Greek / Latin roots and introduce a consistent set of spelling rules.

Slowly, he changed the spelling of words, such that they became “Americanized.” He chose s over c in words like defense, he changed the re to er in words like center, he dropped one of the Ls in traveler, and at first he kept the u in words like colour or favour but dropped it in later editions. He also changed “tongue” to “tung.”(Source: Wikipedia)

That’s awesome! But I don’t trust Wiki. Maybe Marina can confirm?

BTW thank you very very very much for listing your source! I wish more students would do the same. Including me! :mrgreen:

Makes sense, I suppose. But hardly as fun as a video from Marina would be.

Actually I thought it might have something to do with lumberjacking.

Wow, Cap’n, do you mean I’m not the only Wiki-skeptic? :!:

I’m a skeptic of everything. Especially schools. I can not trust even my 12 years of basic eduction. Too many myths out there being tauted as fact. As for Wiki, it’s a great place to start. Much of wiki is correct. I try to look up there sources to see if I come up with the same conclusion. But hey, nothing is perfect. By the way, Marina is usually the first one to spout out that wiki is not to be trusted. She even did a lesson about it. :smile:

No, because YouTube doesn’t count certain views anymore I think every other day is what I will be doing.

I think thats so stupid :evil: (of YouTube, not you)

Are you sure its jack nicholson btw? Because I am not going to send you a handbag for a lookalike

Thanks Che, but that is not the word. I know it ends in (nym). I am going to have to waste a lot of time trying to look it up.

Finally got some hours to write this out:

I believe the race to the 1-M twitter followers was promoted as a race similar to events such as the race to be the first to the South Pole or the race for being the most widely used Operating System (OS; mainly Windows vs Linux).

But events such exploration and development (and promoting) an OS require much consideration of reality, thought and work spread across years. And in such cases, the “race” directly involves the efforts of the “competitors”.

A Twitterer gains followers based largely on prior work. In the early days of Hollywood, fans used to follow stars by way of publicity releases from studios that had the stars under contract; and in recent times, there have been gossip-magazines and fan-websites. Today, fans can follow their idols on Twitter. In the case of a business entity, it gains twitter followers based on what it has offered to its customers in the past.

A Twitterer’s gaining of followers is largely the establishment of a new mode of communication toward his existing base of followers.

So what does it take to reach 1M followers? It requires that Twitter publicize its values — that Twitter garner the attention of several millions of people. Then if a particular twitterer already has an established base of followers, it requires that he communicate the specific value that Twitter would afford them in their role as his fans.

Almost all of Kucher’s fans are likely to already be active on the internet because their pursuit of him is very greatly enhanced by being on the internet! People who watch CNN get what they want from CNN primarily via TV — and so are unlikely to be comfortable at a computer. The interest of Kucher’s fans require them to be on the internet already; the interest of CNN’s fans does not require them to be on the internet already. In fact, people who are on the internet might actually be those who do not watch CNN or any other TV. So it is easier for Kucher to establish this new Twitter connection toward his followers.

What was being promoted is not how Kucher became the actor that he is today or how CNN became the business that it is today — not the actions that lead to the creation of followers.

What was on display was each entity’s attempts to establish the new twitter-connection with their respective followers (and how these efforts were panning out in real time). And yes, it could be somewhat interesting to glance at what each was doing and how the respective outcomes were panning out.

What I would object to is the characterization of the 1M race as being similar to endeavors such as those mentioned earlier (South Pole, OS) — primarily because of the comparative range of time involved. I also do not agree with who people are saying has the advantage (“David/Goliath”) in the 1-M race: because of the respective prior presence of their followers on the internet, I think it is Kucher who is the “big guy with a head start” and CNN that is the “coming from behind little guy”.

–Hs4Mm

Oops! Rather than the race to explore the South Pole, a better example would have been the Race to the Moon!

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Thanks. After a long and drawn out search, I found the word for which I was looking. It is Auto-antonym.

Illeist. James thinks we all know that James would never refer to himself in the third person.

Ooops. A bit slow on the draw there.

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