{"id":14904,"date":"2010-04-15T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/who-has-dumber-fans-ashton-kutcher-or-justin-bieber-math-reveals-the-answer%e2%80%a6-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T08:11:09","slug":"who-has-dumber-fans-ashton-kutcher-or-justin-bieber-math-reveals-the-answer%e2%80%a6-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/who-has-dumber-fans-ashton-kutcher-or-justin-bieber-math-reveals-the-answer%e2%80%a6-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Who Has Dumber Fans, Ashton Kutcher or Justin Bieber? Math Reveals the Answer\u2026 | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8519\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3d3e9_Picture-1111.jpg\" alt=\"Picture-111\" width=\"425\" height=\"292\" align=\"left\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Since Twitter blew up into the mainstream last year, it&rsquo;s become rife with teenybopper types who join the microblogging service just to follow their favorite airheaded celebrities. Which raises the question: Which airheaded celebrity has the, uh, most unsophisticated teenybopper followers?<\/p><p>Comedian and geek <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomscott.com\/\">Tom Scott<\/a> got his creative juices cranking to create Stupid Fight&ndash;a website that lets you compare whose Twitter followers are dumber. This is great, in case you&rsquo;ve ever wondered what sort of a person would follow actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/aplusk\">Ashton Kutcher<\/a> or all-around diva <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KimKardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a> and try to send them messages.<\/p><p>Scott proclaims on his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomscott.com\/stupidfight\/#barackobama-vs-sarahpalin\">website<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>FACT: A lot of people on Twitter are stupid. Many of these people follow celebrities and try to send them messages. But which celebrity&rsquo;s fans are <em>most stupid<\/em>? It&rsquo;s time to find out.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The idea itself is pretty simple. Scott <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomscott.com\/stupidfight\/#barackobama-vs-sarahpalin\">explains<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Stupid Fight can&rsquo;t go out and administer an intelligence test to each person that&rsquo;s sending messages to a celebrity. So instead, it estimates based on several <em>stupid indicators<\/em>. Are they using twenty exclamation marks in a row? Do they endlessly use the abbreviation &lsquo;OMG&rsquo;? Do they seem incapable of working out where their Shift key is? These indicators have a strong correlation with the message, and its sender, being stupid.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><span><\/span>Just go to the site, plug in the names of two people you want to compare and bam! The indicator tells you whose followers are dumber. Of course, the caveat is that this is not a scientific process and Scott himself says, it&rsquo;s a lot like calculating your Body Mass Index: It works perfectly for some and not at all for a few others.<\/p><p>So, when we plugged in Glenn Beck to compare his followers with Rachel Maddow&rsquo;s, here&rsquo;s what we <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomscott.com\/stupidfight\/#glennbeck-vs-maddow\">found<\/a>.<\/p><p>Related Content:<br>Discoblog:<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/04\/07\/introducing-the-twettle-the-tea-kettle-that-tweets\/\">Introducing the Twettle: The Tea Kettle That Tweets<\/a><br>Discoblog:<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/04\/02\/the-best-way-to-predict-box-office-hits-twitter-chatter\/\">The Best Way to Predict Box Office Hits: Twitter Chatter<\/a><br>Discoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/03\/26\/your-plants-have-more-twitter-followers-than-you%E2%80%94literally\/\">Your Plants Have More Twitter Followers Than You&mdash;Literally<br><\/a>Discoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/02\/16\/new-device-aims-to-read-your-dogs-mind%E2%80%94and-broadcast-it-on-twitter\/\">New Device Aims to Read Your Dog&rsquo;s Mind&mdash;and Broadcast It on Twitter<\/a><br>Discoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/02\/19\/how-to-make-your-twitter-followers-uneasy-use-shadyurls\/\">How To Make Your Twitter Followers Uneasy: Use ShadyURLs<\/a><br><em> <\/em><\/p><p><em>Image: Stupid Fight<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1yj1HU-TYuPzAZRxivLX-WaI6ss\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3d3e9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1yj1HU-TYuPzAZRxivLX-WaI6ss\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3d3e9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3d3e9_ylJ2ke2eJmY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Twitter blew up into the mainstream last year, it&rsquo;s become rife with teenybopper types who join the microblogging service just to follow their favorite airheaded celebrities. Which raises the question: Which airheaded celebrity has the, uh, most unsophisticated teenybopper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/who-has-dumber-fans-ashton-kutcher-or-justin-bieber-math-reveals-the-answer%e2%80%a6-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}