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this is why voting on social media is re ed, better when you could just vote on nba.com
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/1...ll-star-voting
LOL... like Kawhi making the AS team is somehow more "alarming" than Pachulia? What should be alarming is that someone like Kawhi might not get enough votes without bots. The whole damn All Star process has just become a joke. And the NBA doesn't give a .
TO THE CASUAL observer, the Pachulia vote was the most alarming. But to John Kelly, the startling outlier was the Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard. Kelly is the CEO and founder of the New York-based social media intelligence firm Graphika, which monitors, categorizes and maps social media traffic for public and private clients. Graphika sifted through more than 5 million tweets on behalf of ESPN and found all sorts of interesting things about NBA All-Star voting, including 10 hyperactive bot accounts voting for Leonard about 1,000 times per day, a figure that Kelly called “outrageously high.”
And of all the ways you could vote, Twitter, in particular, seemed to be hot for Leonard. For players such as Pachulia, Kevin Durant and Draymond Green, a typical account that voted for them on Twitter did so about three times. For Leonard, the number was, per Graphika, 6.46, the highest in the league. More starkly, about 39 percent of the tweets attempting to cast for Leonard came from accounts created since Dec 1, 2016. And those votes were coming from new accounts with names like Kawhibot. 2 hours ago – via ESPN
this is why voting on social media is re ed, better when you could just vote on nba.com
I was gonna post this during my lunch break.
They want the fan to stay engaged. They understand what they are doing.
LOL. Well they kept the bots engaged.
No, I agree. They know what they're doing. I shouldn't have said they don't give a . They just don't give a that people like me think it's a joke.
Kawhi is a fake All-Star! SAD!
Fake votes! Spurs didn't even deserve ONE All Star!
Last edited by John Petrucci; 02-16-2017 at 07:17 PM.
Not really, the article says that the "bot-votes" didn't end up counting. So all of Kawhi's votes are legit.
Bots
We know Kawhi a top 3 player in the world would have ended up at 10 or something if it was up to all the fat and greasy fingers of San Antonio.
#movethespurs
Why wouldn't the Bots support fellow Bot Kawhi Leonard?
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The start of Skynet, tbh.
Does this mean we have to start living off the grid like John Connor?????
Code:int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { TwitterClient client; RandonWordsDictionary words; if (client.login("KawhiBot")) { while( true ) { // std::string message = words.get(rand() % 33) + " Manu Ginobili #NBAVote"; std::string message = words.get(rand() % 33) + " Kawhi Leonard #NBAVote"; client.post(message); } } return 0; }
LOL.
What I couldn't understand is why they could only do 1,000 votes per day each.
that was a joke, BTW... I would think either they didn't want to trigger a Twitter spam engine, or they suspected the NBA might be able to detect overwhelming amounts of votes (which apparently they did anyways).
Bots
We know Kawhi a top 3 player in the world would have ended up at 10 or something if it was up to all the fat and greasy fingers of San Antonio.
The idea that Kawhi wouldn't be one of the top 3 vote-getters (because it's not based on performance) just tells you that it's a dog and pony show. I'm surprised they don't just base it on how much endorsement money they get.
I don't always get jokes on here, but yeah.
If they were trying to fly under the radar, I would think they would stop somewhere short of 1,000 a day, and maybe go a little wider than 10 bots. If you're going to go that far with it, might as well just open the throttle.
from reddit
"This is actually amazing. Us Macedonians have always hated the ing Georgians. We were always jealous of their ability to mobilize and team up to get their done. I guess when the botter saw Georgia rally behind the GSW fellow, they made the bot. Love FYROM!"
The bots were from Macedinia. In reference to zaza
Yes but the whole fact of Pachulia getting more votes than Kiws is an abomination, league made the bots.
Heh. I don't care how it happened. The fact of Pachulia getting more votes than Kawhi is an abomination. And any basketball fan, from any part of the world ought to agree with that much.
Did only one person (DAF86) in this thread read the article?. It said the Kawhi bot votes didn't work.
if you have to start living off the grid, then that means you're already behind.
Yeah it was funny cos I was tweetimg everyday to vote and everytweet had the same 10-15 accounts retweeting it
Kawhi is Neo ... Kawhi is the matrix ...
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