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- chockster, on 07/07/2009, -2/+67God, no.
The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize, in part for his writings. The person who printed his books wasn't given a prize too. Honour someone who DID something, not someone who let other people do things. - AureliaMasterso, on 07/07/2009, -4/+59If Twitter, or its creator, deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, then the Nobel association is about as rational as the 12 people who have apparantly killed themselves when Michael Jackson died. Let's examine some past winners: Rigoberta Menchu from Guatemala (she risked her life to write a book condemning the most powerful people in her country for murder, theft, etc), Nelson Mandela (was a political prisoner, risked his life for the greater good), inventor of Twitter (sat around in a bird costume and figured out a way to make a product for spamming people).
- smartnerd666, on 07/07/2009, -11/+64***** Twitter
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -3/+51Is the Nobel Prize so watered down as of late?? It's an insult to great achievements.
- khimairaGT, on 07/07/2009, -1/+38this is the dumbest ***** i've ever read.
- AndrewDB, on 07/07/2009, -2/+28The Nobel Peace Prizes are being handed out like beads at Marti Gras..
- ElGanyan, on 07/07/2009, -1/+25No.
- x713, on 07/07/2009, -3/+22Nobel Peace Prize and Twitter in one sentence. BURIED.
- palanthos, on 07/07/2009, -0/+17twitter: lol RT @DalaiLama: I can't ***** believe I'm in the same category as twitter.
- aesur, on 07/07/2009, -1/+15That is retarded. Makes no freakin sense. None at all. The person who wrote that article should smash his face into his balls.
- gbudavid, on 07/07/2009, -10/+24Ya think Al Gore would horn in? After all He invented the Internet...
- mtdna, on 07/07/2009, -1/+14Wasn't twitter also used to announce that Jeff Goldblum fell off a cliff??
It seems like twitter is more like 1,000,000 monkeys with typewriters. After producing mountains of crap, it finally gets something right.
Not that the users act like a bunch of monkeys. Actually, come to think of it... - AboveandBeyond, on 07/07/2009, -0/+13in other news, twitter is accused of spamming the nobel prize commission.
- angusm, on 07/07/2009, -0/+11Wake me when Twitter actually manages to overthrow a repressive regime. To my mind, simply providing a way to let people say:
"RT @joe232: RT @capnmal: RT @fungoid666: RT @armantehran: Basij + police breaking down door now. v scared. pls somebody do something."
falls a little short.
Or, put another way, giving a voice to the voiceless is a good start ... but it's only useful if someone's actually listening. - Amlethus, on 07/07/2009, -2/+12How about the Nobel Shut The Hell Up Prize, I nominate Twitter for that one.
- apexracing, on 07/07/2009, -2/+12Telling the internet you just had a poo, is not worthy of a Nobel Peace Price. I see where twitter had good intentions but, it's only as good as the people who use it.
- nullcodes, on 07/07/2009, -2/+12To think Yahoo or Google could have gotten the same level of praise .. if they hadnt run around turning in Chinese dissidents and censoring them. I guess we'll have to accept their excuse that China is a bigger market than Iran.
- mikeyernst, on 07/07/2009, -0/+10how about nominating the people in Iran who were doing the twittering? they were the ones putting themselves at risk.
- OffConstantly, on 07/07/2009, -1/+10Propaganda... that "Iran reporting..." pure propaganda...
- nepidae, on 07/07/2009, -1/+10Whats next, a Nobel Peace Prize given to a hammer?
- ThermiteTerrace, on 07/07/2009, -2/+11Buried for Twitter.
- heyjohnsullivan, on 07/07/2009, -1/+9STFU. Please.
- ne0codex, on 07/07/2009, -1/+9oh, HELL no.
- kurtzmoo, on 07/07/2009, -0/+8Yes, twitter should get to further cash in off of Iran's political turmoil because they set up a fancy website that lets people "tweet while they get beat", but I say no prize for twitter until amazon.com gets one.
- inajeep, on 07/07/2009, -0/+8WTF? No, just no Mark Pfeifle. Step away from the keyboard and rethink your chosen career.
- KRG12345, on 07/07/2009, -1/+9Um, no.
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -2/+10Oh for *****'s sake, it's JUST A ***** MICROBLOG.
How about Nobel prizes for the invention of email or the "forward" button in email clients? How about Nobel prizes for the invention of television which reaches far more people than Twatter? How about Nobel prizes for the inventions of ink, paper, or words?
GET THE ***** OVER TWITTER, MASS MEDIA. It's a ***** implementation of a near-useless communication mechanic. - TheOther1, on 07/07/2009, -0/+7He never said it, nor claimed it.
"In a comment that brought to mind the 2000 presidential campaign flap over whether Al Gore had invented the Internet, McCain's senior policy advisor said the candidate was responsible for the BlackBerry.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin held up his little device to show reporters in Miami as he sought to explain why McCain was qualified to lead the nation out of its economic morass.
"He did this," Holtz-Eakin said. "The premier innovation in the past 15 years comes right from the commerce committee. So, you're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."
[...]
The senator from Arizona later laughed off innovative acumen attributed to him, according to campaign senior aide Matt McDonald. "He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry. This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer," McDonald said."
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/17/nation/na- ... - richmomz, on 07/07/2009, -1/+8At least the hammer probably did something useful!
- MikeFromAmerica, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5I nominate the inanimate carbon rod!
- STPZ, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5We all know Iran saved twitter and not the other way around
- ai52487963, on 07/07/2009, -1/+5You'd think the Nobel Prizes were given out on Oprah these days
- psybermonkey, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4well said.
- DonAlfred, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4I will say, that the creator of Twitter risked his life too, by making the single most annoying web 2.0 ***** application to date. I think some people would like to see him dead too.
- teamr, on 07/07/2009, -2/+6Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the world wide web and the first browser....no nobel prize
Twitter team: Inventor of the most annoying method of communication since rotary phones....possible nobel prize nominees
What is wrong with this planet? - collectivescott, on 07/07/2009, -1/+4Cell phones are much more powerful tools for the organization of protests. All Twitter is doing is allowing us to follow the news more closely.
- jamshid, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3I think Snopes is a bit too easy on Gore for his statement that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp but if Vint Cerf gives props to Gore, that's good enough for me:
"While it is not accurate to say that VP Gore invented Internet, he has played a powerful role in policy terms that has supported its continued growth and application, for which we should be thankful." - Sabin8, on 07/07/2009, -1/+4Absolutely not... why not give a Nobel Peace prize to facebook, myspace, etc. ***** it just give it to the internet while you are at it. >.>
- cyrix, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3That's pretty much the ONLY good thing twitter has ever done.
I'm fairly sure there are far more qualified people for this award. - dayv2005, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3like @madyar and @persiankiwi (specially if we ever fully confirm he/she is still alive and not captured)
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Lindsay Lohan doesnt eat breakfast.
- digitalArtform, on 07/07/2009, -1/+4It doesn't matter whether McCain said it or not. You tag him with it, and you beat it into the ***** ground - just like the GOP did with Al Gore
Why should facts suddenly matter just because the subject is a Republican? - ai52487963, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3I'll show YOU inanimate!
YEARGHH!
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... - Reebee52, on 07/07/2009, -1/+4By an large, I agree. But it was nice to see it used to do something incredibly useful. But nobel prize worthy?
No. - collectivescott, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Just show your tweets?
- redwolfwalker, on 07/07/2009, -4/+7In this case, Twitter deserves it more than Al Gore, who is on Twitter with
1,187,267 followers he follows 8 http://m.twitter.com/algore ...he follows President Obama and some news feeds mostly - waydee, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3Just no. Twitter is mostly spam, just people retweeting (for some reason I couldn't work out) the spam of others. The occasional worthwhile post just gets drowned by the endless flow of spam and the opinions of others that I couldn't give a ***** about.
- raybury, on 07/07/2009, -2/+4My Marxist Anthropology prosessor was qualified to make nominations for the Noble Peace Prize, and she was not qualified to out-think a ham sandwich.
- Phonk, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2Ya'kno ***** happens.
The Noble Prize was reserved for exceptional work few people can do on the planet,
Insane that twitter almost triggered a civil war in Iran. that could've led to another Lebanon. So much for peace in the middle east. Oil price would go back to the Bush's year.
War mongerers are the ones behind the Prize. - inactive, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2He did write Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth.
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