2.22.11 Adam News & Info

Re: Adam Tweets up a Storm ~

He's so right! In all that he said! ;D ;D ;D Love him so much more because of it!

Havent read yesterday's thread and i must go to work but i just wanted to say my thoughts go to Catzmadam. I'm watching the news right now there is another quake and so far i hear 60 people were gone.
I've experienced an earthquake when i was 18, 11 people were lost in my town, my husbands house was destroyed, i've lived in tents for three months until we were allowed to go to our homes, that year i lost my opportunity to enter the University because of this, i will not say more but it was the worst summer of my life, with lots of after earthquakes, i know what it means.

Re. the issue of tattoos... A long time ago on PF, somebody posted this pic. Have no idea where it came from originally. I think it's a piece of jewelry like a brooch? Anyhow, I love it, and I was thinking it might look really cool as a tattoo. I love the colors!

Bringing over from yesterdays thread 'cause of my schedule I often sometimes end up being the lonely last poster... (though often someone kindly saves me from that fate).

late reading through yesterday's thread, laughing (chunkey your visual communication skills are A++++++) and thinking.

love tats, especially sleeves and cuffs, think they are very sexy and rock n' roll.

twitter: love Adam's response, hoping outside of the examiner, the real press doesn't really notice as his rant is fairly hard to interpret for outsiders.

As he mentioned in the social media summit, one of the amazing things about social media was how fans have connected and created communities with each other. This is where the disruption was happening--it was spreading out ripples of larger infighting and negativity throughout the Adam fan twitterverse, and this is why I would guess Adam decided to address it, along with whatever he might have perceived as an attack on a friend, rather than just blocking and ignoring the obvious trolls.

Twitter is a community, a fragmented community, but one with far-reaching tendrils that is great at spreading info for good or ill to many fansites as well as amongst it's users, so that even if no one on your feed is saying anything disturbing, someone on your feed might well point out that something negative is being said that they see on tweetdeck...i.e. "I can't believe what that person just tweeted", which then upsets their twitter followers, which then leads to a disturbance in the larger force. Adam, being a jedi-knight, sensed this, and swooped in with his tweet-sabre.

The very obvious trolls, and very unreality-connected aren't likely to stop their behavior outright, but several accounts do get locked or hidden or deleted, their followers might drop off a bit, and those retweeting and angsting are reminded that spreading negativity even unwittingly helps to bring it to A's attention, and they don't want that to happen again, so start to refrain.

In terms of twitter numbers added, doesn't he usually add between 1,000-2,500 a day on average? When I've scanned back briefly looking for patterns I don't see many, except that Beiber fans seem to be prevalent and to be adding in little clusters.

I'm interested to see how the DVD does -- I have seen adds for it at the beginning of his Vevo vids, so I'm assuming at least a little promotional money is being spent (or maybe Vevo threw that in?). I'd also love to know numbers for the acoustic CD, is it still selling? What rate has it settled into?

Sending love and hope to folks in Christchurch, who really need it right now.