Comments on: Mother Teresa, MLK, The Dalai Lama And Twitter. All But One Have A Nobel Peace Prize…So Far

By: 60% of Twitter users do not return the following month? They might return a year later « digiom by jana herwig – ein studientagebuch auf dem weg zum doktorat

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:33:25 +0000

[...] Mother Teresa, MLK, The Dalai Lama And Twitter. All But One Have A Nobel Peace Prize…So Far (techcrunch.com) [...]

By: Twitter Como Nobel da Paz? « Cadeia de Valor

Twitter Como Nobel da Paz? « Cadeia de Valor — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:29:37 +0000

[...] posição de Mark Pfeiple já foi amplamente contestada. O site «Tech Crunch»escreveu que dar ao Twitter «o mesmo prémio que Madre Teresa, Dalai Lama e Martin Luther King [...]

By: Michael Bearrington

Michael Bearrington — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:24:10 +0000

Can you please stop with these BS stories? Twitter in no way shape or form deserves any kind of prize. If anything the Nobel Prize should go to the internet then. This story is moronic and the kind of thing that turns me off to TechCrunch.

By: Twitter poderá ser nomeado para o Nobel da Paz | WEBGRAU

Twitter poderá ser nomeado para o Nobel da Paz | WEBGRAU — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:13:28 +0000

[...] Mas juntamente com estas declarações começaram a surgir algumas críticas em especial do site TechCrunch: “Enquanto a ideia do Twitter de receber o mesmo prémio que Madre Teresa de Calcutá, Dalai [...]

By: assapin

assapin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:15:03 +0000

cheap marketing and PR ploy. Both by the highly esteemed gentleman with the preposterous suggestion, and by TC who will go to any length in order to get people to respond to posts.

But then again, they may well be serious about it. After all, They are American – and belong to the only nation who would think it makes sense to elect Schwarzenegger… and George Bush (both senior and junior) for public offices…

By: Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday | eMediaOne

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:04:52 +0000

[...] Siegler found Pfeifle’s editorial and reported on it; he seems to think it’s funny – and it is. I think the idea is also serious enough, [...]

By: Twitter A Nobel Peace Prize Nominee? I Don’t Think So. | Deep Jive Interests

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:47:04 +0000

[...] looks like MG Seigler has the same thoughts. This entry was written by Tony Hung, posted on July 8, 2009 at 12:13 am, filed under Twitter. [...]

By: locutus

locutus — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:16:55 +0000

Vint Cerf should receive a Nobel Prize before the founders of Twitter. The idea that postponing routine maintenance of a website justifies awarding a nobel prize is absurd.

Maybe give it to the people who died or are now imprisoned to get the information out of Iran through whatever means necessary—but not to people who risked absolutely nothing in a routine IT decision.

Get a grip on your twitter obsession and stop echoing retarded comments by a politician just because they include the word “twitter”.

By: Tech Fused » Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:47:13 +0000

[...] Siegler found Pfeifle’s editorial and reported on it; he seems to think it’s funny – and it is. I think the idea is also serious enough, [...]

By: Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday | Newsfed - Aggregate local and tech stories with related videos and tweets!

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:56:16 +0000

[...] Siegler found Pfeifle’s editorial and reported on it; he seems to think it’s funny – and it is. I think the idea is also serious enough, though, [...]

By: Twitterer

Twitterer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:10:34 +0000

It’s not about the platform, it’s the people. So yes, I do think all the people who are using Twitter to spread news in Iran and elsewhere deserve great acclaim. I think other social entrepreneurs have been using twitter for a while to help better the world. Here’s a great case in point: http://thestimu...m/guy-kawasaki/

By: WebHosts 2009» Blog Archive » Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:37:24 +0000

[...] Siegler found Pfeifle’s suggestion and reported on it; he seems to think it’s funny – and it is. I think the idea is also serious enough, though, to [...]

By: Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday | yKvz Blog

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:04:12 +0000

[...] Siegler found Pfeifle’s suggestion and reported on it; he seems to think it’s funny – and it is. I think the idea is also serious enough, though, to [...]

By: James

James — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:46:32 +0000

Too late. Al Gore did, in fact, win the Nobel Peace Prize.

@imjamesdavis

By: Anthony Deaver

Anthony Deaver — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:42:32 +0000

actually, considering that it was the people that use Twitter, not Twitter itself that make the events in Iran so wide know, that isn’t a bad idea.

Giving Twitter a Nobel is stupid. They didn’t raise the level of awareness, they just created the ‘product’ people used.

By: Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday | Stoth

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:36:49 +0000

[...] Siegler found Pfeifle’s suggestion and reported on it; he seems to think it’s funny – and it is. I think the idea is also serious enough, though, [...]

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:27:37 +0000

LOL

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:25:17 +0000

Twitter for Nobel…LOL, dont tell me next that Twitter is standing for US Presidency next time…

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:44:26 +0000

Maybe you should take a relaxing trip to Hastings, Nebraska on August 14-16th for their “Kool-Aid Days” festival. (Hastings is the birthplace of Kool-aid, where I recently attended a conference for College Financial Aid Administrators. They gave out Kool-aid packets and bottled water at the hotel….and for the entertainment, Judson Laipply did his 6 minute “Evolution of Dance” routine in person)

p.s. I didn’t drink the Kool-aid

http://www.kool-aiddays.com/

By: igniguy

igniguy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:11:58 +0000

Geek people are supposed to be intelligent. But they do have bursts of mass idiocy like this.

What did twitter do to iranians? First of all, if anything, they used Facebook much more extensively to get the word out about the protests. Secondly, they would use any medium to let the world know what was happening, even if they had to invent a new TCP application that used 15 satellites. Third, no revolution can be won by painting our avatars green.

If the worldwide community wants to show their support against the oppressive regime running iran, they should give the Prize to the iranian people.

By: igniguy

igniguy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:47:16 +0000

MotherTeresa: RT: OMG twitter for the Nobo! (via @mlk)
DalaiLama: @MotherTeresa wtf is up with the americans? first Gore, now Twits?
mlk: to think that @ghandi never got one!
ghandi: @mlk: http://bit.ly/146VSk pwned!

By: Damiansen

Damiansen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:05:23 +0000

Sure, give them the same price as it was given to an old lady that spent her life in poverty, in a “slump city”, giving everything to ridiculously poor people…

Please, this is journalism/commentator bullshit…. They desearve a free speech award for sure ‘do

By: ServerMojo

ServerMojo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:02:17 +0000

Umm.. no. Please put the bong away.

By: igniguy

igniguy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:04:34 +0000

Twitter sells, MG knows it and i love him for that.

Btw i think Michael Jackson should get a prize too, dunno what, something to do with children maybe?

By: Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:23:59 +0000

@jmdecombe I totally agree with you. It is ridiculous to want to give the Nobel Peace Prize to something that started out simply as a social networking site for the profit of the creators!

Also, when it comes to a controversy like the case of a sports manager’s account being hacked and he threatened to sue Twitter, the creators washed their hands of the case. They said that Twitter is a simple site to update people’s boring thoughts and was being taken too seriously. And now they should be given a Nobel Prize!?!?!