As I mentioned in a recent blog, I've been having a field day with trending hashtags on Twitter of late. Over the past 48-72 hours, I've posted a combined 90 tweets with one of the following hashtags: #Bad1stDateOmens, #FakeCampingFacts, #WhitePrivilegeMeans, #ConservativeBecause, and #GOPPlatform. After a couple of #ConservativeBecause tweets I made, I received this response from a Trump supporter:
"For every one of these posts you make, I'm gonna donate $10 to Trump and the NY Tea Party. Your move."
Really? This guy apparently doesn't know me very well. I've gone as high as 100 tweets on a trending hashtag before. Also, what are the specifics? Is it $10 a piece to Trump and the NY Tea Party per tweet or $10 total? What about retweets? Whatever the case, I decided to call the Trumpeteer's bluff. Chances are he would have donated money to Trump anyway, and there's no way in hell I'm going to censor myself because of a donation threat from a Trumpeteer. From my vantage point, the guy was just trying to bluff his way into shutting me up with my sarcastic posts, poking fun of Donald Trump. To his surprise, I'm sure, I retweeted his "threat," asked my followers to get involved, and to make the man eat his own words in the process. Many followers of mine got into the act, and while I'm not sure whether or not their original tweets added to the tally-board, here's how it broke down for me:
Tweets: 46 = $460 or $920 (depending on whether he donated $10 a piece to both Trump and the NY Tea Party per tweet or donated a combined $10 per tweet)
Retweets: 664 = $6,640 or $13,280
Combined: Anywhere from $460 to $14,200
Yeah, the odds are quite good he only donated a small fraction of the former number. When dealing with my followers and I, he may want to keep his donation-threats to himself.
I did anger one (former) follower of mine, who believed the Trumpeteer likely did donate up to $14,200 and I was solely to blame for that. First of all, that's highly unlikely. The median household income in this country is approximately $52,000. So even if this single individual makes $52,000, $14,200 is 27.3% of his salary. A person who makes $52,000 a year averages $1,000 per week ($2,000 per paycheck every couple of weeks). So, again, assuming this Trumpeteer makes $52,000 annually, if he donated just $460, that's still 23% of a single paycheck, or 46% of his weekly pay. If he wants to go broke wasting money on a candidate with an approval rating that's lower than root canals while listening to Nickelback due to a dare he made to shut a satirist up from posting satirical tweets, so be it. Whether he bluffed or didn't bluff, chances are he learned his lesson and won't be daring my followers and I anymore. :: mic drop ::
"For every one of these posts you make, I'm gonna donate $10 to Trump and the NY Tea Party. Your move."
Really? This guy apparently doesn't know me very well. I've gone as high as 100 tweets on a trending hashtag before. Also, what are the specifics? Is it $10 a piece to Trump and the NY Tea Party per tweet or $10 total? What about retweets? Whatever the case, I decided to call the Trumpeteer's bluff. Chances are he would have donated money to Trump anyway, and there's no way in hell I'm going to censor myself because of a donation threat from a Trumpeteer. From my vantage point, the guy was just trying to bluff his way into shutting me up with my sarcastic posts, poking fun of Donald Trump. To his surprise, I'm sure, I retweeted his "threat," asked my followers to get involved, and to make the man eat his own words in the process. Many followers of mine got into the act, and while I'm not sure whether or not their original tweets added to the tally-board, here's how it broke down for me:
Tweets: 46 = $460 or $920 (depending on whether he donated $10 a piece to both Trump and the NY Tea Party per tweet or donated a combined $10 per tweet)
Retweets: 664 = $6,640 or $13,280
Combined: Anywhere from $460 to $14,200
Yeah, the odds are quite good he only donated a small fraction of the former number. When dealing with my followers and I, he may want to keep his donation-threats to himself.
I did anger one (former) follower of mine, who believed the Trumpeteer likely did donate up to $14,200 and I was solely to blame for that. First of all, that's highly unlikely. The median household income in this country is approximately $52,000. So even if this single individual makes $52,000, $14,200 is 27.3% of his salary. A person who makes $52,000 a year averages $1,000 per week ($2,000 per paycheck every couple of weeks). So, again, assuming this Trumpeteer makes $52,000 annually, if he donated just $460, that's still 23% of a single paycheck, or 46% of his weekly pay. If he wants to go broke wasting money on a candidate with an approval rating that's lower than root canals while listening to Nickelback due to a dare he made to shut a satirist up from posting satirical tweets, so be it. Whether he bluffed or didn't bluff, chances are he learned his lesson and won't be daring my followers and I anymore. :: mic drop ::
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