Media

Only Fifty People Per Day Twittering About The Daily

Chuck Ansbacher | Wednesday 6 April, 2011 15:13

It took a few long minutes of staring at the above graph to realise it wasn’t being scaled. As in, each tweet doesn’t represent one thousand tweets, or one hundred tweets, or even two tweets. There are literally fifty people per day — FIFTY — tweeting about Rubert Murdoch’s The Daily articles from their iPads.

There is almost no end to the delightfully petty amount of ways I can put this staggeringly low number in context for you.

Let’s see… I personally have only slightly fewer toes and fingers than The Daily has people tweeting about it.

At this very moment, the article on the front page of The Guardian has had 59 people tweet about it. One single article, compared to an entire “news” “paper”.

A full 95 people have tweeted about an article currently buried on the Huffington Post somewhere entitled Do Narcissists Know They Are Narcisissts?

It would appear that the answer to that question is no, they don’t.

From the outset, The Daily has been a blatantly narcissistic venture — willfully ignoring not only every modern method by which people receive their news, but also shamefully pandering to the lowest common denominator in what can be considered news.

From the now infamous memo declaring the Egypt story to be over, now go find the oldest dog in South Dakota to the fact that they sent an entire camera crew to a porn star’s book reading in New York earlier this week, the virtual rag has assumed their readers are assholes, and produced a product for them to wipe themselves with.

Also, when the number of times I’ve had sex in a single day surpasses the number of people The Daily had tweeting about it, I will write an update and let you know. After all, not all of us narcissists are blind to our ways.

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