Alex Ferguson retiring generates more interest than Thatcher dying

[dholliday]

within an hour of Manchester United announcing the wee matter of his doing one on Twitter, there had been 1.4 million mentions of it on everyone's favourite social networking farce. By comparison, Baroness Thatcher took four hours to top a mere one million mentions.

A victory for socialism?

Discuss.

 

[EFCNIK]

Good grief.

 

[roydo]

I expect most people on Twitter had never heard of Thatcher. But like Nik says, good grief.

 

[Brennan]

Not really anything to 'discuss' is there ?

 

[dholliday]

Not really anything to 'discuss' is there ?

That football is so all-encompassing in the minds of online folk that news of a coach retiring generates far more interest than a historically-significant politician dying.

Ironically, traditional socialism would not have wanted it to be like this, whereas conservative capitalism is only too happy for the people to be more interested in distractions than politics.


I find it interesting anyway. But if no one else does, this thread can die...

 

[Brennan]

That football is so all-encompassing in the minds of online folk that news of a coach retiring generates far more interest than a historically-significant politician dying.

Ironically, traditional socialism would not have wanted it to be like this, whereas conservative capitalism is only too happy for the people to be more interested in distractions than politics.


I find it interesting anyway. But if no one else does, this thread can die...

To be honest i think it's got more to do with Ferguson being a current figure in society, not much more to it than that.

If Cameron died tomorrow that would generate miles more hits than Thatcher.

 

[ToffeeMike]

In before the lock.

 

[bluejock]

To be honest i think it's got more to do with Ferguson being a current figure in society, not much more to it than that.

If Cameron died tomorrow that would generate miles more hits than Thatcher.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

 

[dholliday]

To be honest i think it's got more to do with Ferguson being a current figure in society, not much more to it than that.

If Cameron died tomorrow that would generate miles more hits than Thatcher.

Good point, actually.

Fair enough, kill da thread.

 

[toffeestillidie]

People all over the world follow the premier league.

I follow world politics relatively closely (closer than most at least), and my knowledge of Thatcher is still pretty much just broad strokes (Privatize everything, miners hate her etc.) I wouldn't expect your average twitterer to know that much about a political figure in a foreign country who hasn't been relevant for nearly 30 years.

This really isn't surprising, though I suppose it's an interesting factoid.

 

[dholliday]

People all over the world follow the premier league.

I follow world politics relatively closely (closer than most at least), and my knowledge of Thatcher is still pretty much just broad strokes (Privatize everything, miners hate her etc.) I wouldn't expect your average twitterer to know that much about a political figure in a foreign country who hasn't been relevant for nearly 30 years.

This really isn't surprising, though I suppose it's an interesting factoid.

Aye...fair point also.

 

[Bungle]

 

[Walken]

Thatchers not relevant anymore, thankfully, Fergie is in the public eye

Also Fergie is a good left wing man and thatcher an evil right wing bitch

commence lock

 

[Warwick Hunt]

It's refreshing to see news about a 70+ year old celebrity that doesn't involve noncing kids.

 

[dholliday]

It's refreshing to see news about a 70+ year old celebrity that doesn't involve noncing kids.

haha!