Comments on: Twitterers claim victory over loaded Daily Mail gypsy poll

By: Don’t tell me what to think! Social media vs heritage news | Atomik Soapbox

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:24:25 +0000

[...] media in the UK took another punch to the stomach recently as social media refused to allow The Daily Mail to set a racist right wing agenda. A [...]

By: Moaning about Pride is just another way to hate ourselves | Jon Blyth | No Bull. news service.

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:37:47 +0000

[...] takes a heroic leftwing celebrity to tweet about a Daily Mail poll and suddenly 93% of people are in favour of gypsies jumping NHS queues. If you’re complaining that walking down a street once a year isn’t political enough, [...]

By: “Time to fade out” «

“Time to fade out” « — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:02:15 +0000

[...] It’s a place where people can direct me to content that has the power to educate, inspire, infuriate or simply make me smile. It’s somewhere I’m guaranteed laughter and conversation, without someone politely feigning peanut-related anaphylactic shock in order to side-step my awkward conversation at a party. And it’s an experience that’s left me with the odd story to bore the grandchildren with, like a crusty old war veteran (“Kids, did I ever tell you about the time thousands of us got together on Twitter and skewed a Daily Mail poll?”). [...]

By: Jacking a poll never felt so wholesome « Cubik’s Rube

Jacking a poll never felt so wholesome « Cubik’s Rube — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:11:03 +0000

[...] So, @polljack took offence, got to work, and suggested that people voted “Yes”. By the time the poll was closed, “Yes” was up to 93% of the vote. [...]

By: I have little to add, but… « BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog

I have little to add, but… « BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:17:39 +0000

[...] in general has been giving the inky press a bloody nose for some weeks – think about campaigns to skew biased newspaper polls or the continual outing of outright lies by Badscience and the like. The whole Jan Moir/Stephen [...]

By: Twitter Gives Daily Mail A Stupid Answer To Its Stupid Question | Gadget-reviewz

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:58:23 +0000

[...] Via – Journalism.co.uk [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:36:57 +0000

I think you’ll find that reddit had a hand in that one as well.

By: The Daily Mail to stop moderating comments, so how should they display comments?

The Daily Mail to stop moderating comments, so how should they display comments? — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:28:39 +0000

[...] a track record of running polls as ridiculous as “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue?” The Daily Mail now run the risk of having a “left of centre” community of commenters [...]

By: Why Metatrend analysis?

Why Metatrend analysis? — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:23:11 +0000

[...] tell you the truth – because of embarrassment, malice or any of a number of other reasons. Gaming surveys has even become popular as a form of subversive act. The best possible example of this problem are [...]

By: Cyberman

Cyberman — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:48:26 +0000

This would never have happened under the Tories.

By: Tales of the unexpected « The Martin Cloake blog

Tales of the unexpected « The Martin Cloake blog — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:29:30 +0000

[...] it is at operating within new media than everyone else. A few days before it had gleefully reported how the web community had scuppered a particularly obnoxious Daily Mail poll (and I’ll confess to enjoying that too), now it was on a receiving end of something [...]

By: Daily Mail gypsy/NHS poll on The Now Show | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Daily Mail gypsy/NHS poll on The Now Show | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:13:42 +0000

[...] On Saturday June 20 Journalism.co.uk’s John Thompson reported: “The UK-based Mail Online was forced to shut down one of its online polls yesterday after a concerted campaign by Twitter users and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists, nearly brought their servers to a halt with an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote.” [...]

By: ThePickards » #LocalGovCamp (Session 4 – Crowdsourcing Public Policy)

ThePickards » #LocalGovCamp (Session 4 – Crowdsourcing Public Policy) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:22:13 +0000

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By: BNP and EHRC in acronym-wrestling competition « project-sheffield

BNP and EHRC in acronym-wrestling competition « project-sheffield — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:51:04 +0000

[...] down for jobs heaves into view and I’m reminded at this point of what happened to the Daily Mail’s poll about gipsies last [...]

By: Twitter Gives Daily Mail A Stupid Answer To Its Stupid Question

Twitter Gives Daily Mail A Stupid Answer To Its Stupid Question — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:32:13 +0000

[...] Via – Journalism.co.uk [...]