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After The Age poll was hijacked and deleted last week, I made a poll in the hopes it would be hijacked so I could track it in real time and post updates as it occurred. It worked: https://twitter.com/PRGuy17/status/1304588748546387968
I wasn't sure if they'd show up. https://twitter.com/PRGuy17/status/1304675819889946624
But they did, once the poll was showing 96% people believed Scott Morrison was a bully (like we need a poll for that).
There were many call outs, some highlights:
And after a solid 7-8 hour effort, the No vote reached jumped from 4% to 50%.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting bots were used in this instance, but the sustained efforts by people to flip a poll they didn't like the look of is interesting.
I often see screenshots of meaningless Twitter polls referred to in support of arguments. People tend to believe the outcome if it suits their position and consider it as evidence.
Thank you to all who voted, the data is excellent.
Thank you to all who voted, the data is excellent.
Special thanks also to those leading the effort to hijack the poll, this experiment wouldn't have worked without you. Unfortunately those people are no longer replying to my tweets since they discovered they'd been had, but I am grateful for their work.
