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Title: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 16, 2014, 05:03:28 PM
http://www.troll.me/images/bert/im-so-hard-right-now.jpg

https://twitter.com/CNNMoney/status/511799183951417344 (https://twitter.com/CNNMoney/status/511799183951417344)

Done


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: MJK on September 16, 2014, 05:07:35 PM
You should link to the actual tweet because I can't see it.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 16, 2014, 05:08:35 PM
You should link to the actual tweet.

Done -  (Fapping)


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: oceans on September 16, 2014, 06:38:31 PM
Nice! Really is good to see CNN mention bitcoin and in a good way as well. It's what we need to help bitcoin along to be honest and any good publicity is always great.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 16, 2014, 06:41:22 PM
Nice! Really is good to see CNN mention bitcoin and in a good way as well. It's what we need to help bitcoin along to be honest and any good publicity is always great.

Yeah there will be a rally last quarter for BTC - hodl


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: BallOOner on September 16, 2014, 06:44:32 PM
well, BTC price only goes down :S
buy the rumor, sell the news. This is why news programs shouldn't mention bitcoin


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: findftp on September 16, 2014, 06:59:58 PM
I'm pretty sure right now that Bitcoin will be the next world reserve currency.
I believe in 95% of daily news is conspiracy, and this fits my confirmation biased world view.
When CNN starts to mention it you know it's part of a conspiracy, at least that's what I believe.

I'm a little bit puzzeled if I should continue with bitcoin or choose another coin to invest/convert in.

Maybe I should start my own coin just to be sure... ;)


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: Mr Tea on September 16, 2014, 07:08:30 PM
Op, it clearly doesn't take much to make you aroused.

I'm pretty sure right now that Bitcoin will be the next world reserve currency.
I believe in 95% of daily news is conspiracy, and this fits my confirmation biased world view.
When CNN starts to mention it you know it's part of a conspiracy, at least that's what I believe.

I'm a little bit puzzeled if I should continue with bitcoin or choose another coin to invest/convert in.

Maybe I should start my own coin just to be sure... ;)

Whilst a lot of the news is propoganda in some form, I don't think that tweet by CNN is part of some sort of conspiracy, nor should you ditch your bitcoins any time soon.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: Chef Ramsay on September 16, 2014, 07:10:11 PM
CNN has been losing ground in the news world for years now so my guess is this is a desperate attempt to snag viewers out of bitcoinland and not much else. However, if doing so forces them to roll the BTC ticker in the faces of what's left of their audience then so be it. ;D


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: BallOOner on September 16, 2014, 07:10:49 PM
I'm pretty sure right now that Bitcoin will be the next world reserve currency.
I believe in 95% of daily news is conspiracy, and this fits my confirmation biased world view.
When CNN starts to mention it you know it's part of a conspiracy, at least that's what I believe.

I'm a little bit puzzeled if I should continue with bitcoin or choose another coin to invest/convert in.

Maybe I should start my own coin just to be sure... ;)

starting a new coin is a good bet :D


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: ChuckBuck on September 16, 2014, 07:14:25 PM
I'll take any mention of Bitcoin on any news or social media format right now.

Getting people to see and hear Bitcoin related news, and get them curious is the start of the beginning of the network effect.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: findftp on September 16, 2014, 07:19:30 PM
I'll take any mention of Bitcoin on any news or social media format right now.

Getting people to see and hear Bitcoin related news, and get them curious is the start of the beginning of the network effect.
Well, it is not necessarily the beginning, but it is definitely a part of it.
I still think crypto currencies/bitcoin are very new and have enormous growth potential.
At my work, a very technical environment, there are still very few people involved in cryptos.
Some of them never even heard of it!

It's even worse when you ask people on the street.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: tokeweed on September 16, 2014, 07:24:20 PM
CNN has been losing ground in the news world for years now so my guess is this is a desperate attempt to snag viewers out of bitcoinland and not much else. However, if doing so forces them to roll the BTC ticker in the faces of what's left of their audience then so be it. ;D

rofl.  doubt it.  'bitcoinland' ain't that big of an audience to snag.  

and if they really wanted bitcoinland, they should make more than a cnn money ticker thing.  they could do a whole lot of 'news', articles and stories from bitcoin/crypto.

edit:  but if you're in cynical mode, it's more cos i think cnn is accumulating btc.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: bitcoinstarter on September 16, 2014, 07:27:23 PM
wow, awesome to hear lol


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 16, 2014, 07:37:03 PM
Bullish as fuck... that is all... lol


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: tokeweed on September 16, 2014, 07:40:16 PM
Bullish as fuck... that is all... lol

that chart says otherwise.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: b!z on September 16, 2014, 08:04:01 PM
Uh, this is big news? Mainstream news outlets have been talking about Bitcoin since 2013 unless I am mistaken. It has seen a lot of airtime and they have reported on it many times.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: Gleb Gamow on September 16, 2014, 09:14:52 PM

https://twitter.com/CNNMoney/status/511799183951417344 (https://twitter.com/CNNMoney/status/511799183951417344)

Done

http://s22.postimg.org/5l67tinxd/cnn_bitcoin.jpg

Obviously, CNN Money didn't do this for shits and giggles.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: ChuckBuck on September 16, 2014, 09:20:55 PM
Related news from last week, Paypal hashtags Bitcoin with their recently announced Braintree acquisition:

https://i.imgur.com/PNAW1pC.png

Loving the tidbits and acceptance here and there.

Just gotta let this thing marinate....


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 17, 2014, 12:16:00 AM
Related news from last week, Paypal hashtags Bitcoin with their recently announced Braintree acquisition:

https://i.imgur.com/PNAW1pC.png

Loving the tidbits and acceptance here and there.

Just gotta let this thing marinate....

*Loud inhale*  Breathe it all in Chuck... Breathe it all in


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: darthcoin on September 17, 2014, 10:21:48 AM
The tweet is good to see, but the responses are disappointing. Every single one of them is from somebody involved in Bitcoin, which makes this community look even more like an echo chamber. It would be nice to see some curiosity and interest from the average person.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: Hunyadi on September 17, 2014, 11:09:52 AM
Yet another proof that bitcoin is becoming mainstream!


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: Unbelive on September 17, 2014, 11:32:41 AM
One thing is sure, when next BTC rally begin it will be everywhere on first page, and they will talk about it weeks after will happen. And as some reply was. Yes BTC come out of puberty. 2015 will be its year!


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: jersey19957 on September 17, 2014, 12:14:00 PM
Good! Loving all this recent attention.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: proofofarat on September 17, 2014, 01:57:05 PM
This is HUGE!
For those who don't know, CNN is a TV channel viewed by thousands of people. Sometimes they also conduct interviews and edit footage.

Wow! Never heard of them.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 17, 2014, 02:00:59 PM
This is HUGE!
For those who don't know, CNN is a TV channel viewed by thousands of people. Sometimes they also conduct interviews and edit footage.

Pics or didn't happen


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: chennan on September 17, 2014, 02:27:20 PM
Good propaganda. big media outlets are paying more attention on the bitcoin. More related positive news will go to their reports. More people have chance to know bitcoin.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: yunkie on September 17, 2014, 04:12:34 PM
It's amazing how they are mentioning it everywhere lately, price burst always comes with delay so be ready.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: LiteCoinGuy on September 17, 2014, 04:39:53 PM
CNN has been losing ground in the news world for years now so my guess is this is a desperate attempt to snag viewers out of bitcoinland and not much else. However, if doing so forces them to roll the BTC ticker in the faces of what's left of their audience then so be it. ;D

great, a price ticker  :D ... pretty late after Bloomberg and a bunch of smaller companies already added that.

but okay, lets be fair: its nice  :)


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: blatchcorn on September 17, 2014, 05:15:12 PM
CNN has been losing ground in the news world for years now so my guess is this is a desperate attempt to snag viewers out of bitcoinland and not much else. However, if doing so forces them to roll the BTC ticker in the faces of what's left of their audience then so be it. ;D

great, a price ticker  :D ... pretty late after Bloomberg and a bunch of smaller companies already added that.

but okay, lets be fair: its nice  :)
I love the yearly change


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: counter on September 17, 2014, 06:08:41 PM
Good to see we are passed the phase of being ignored and laughed at.  I've been seeing the acceptance of Bitcoin in the media lately and it's becoming the norm more and more, which is good.  No more laughing every time they user the word Bitcoin.  Instead a real discussion is taking place and for the old school media outlets this is a big step in the right direction.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 17, 2014, 06:26:17 PM
Good to see we are passed the phase of being ignored and laughed at.  I've been seeing the acceptance of Bitcoin in the media lately and it's becoming the norm more and more, which is good.  No more laughing every time they user the word Bitcoin.  Instead a real discussion is taking place and for the old school media outlets this is a big step in the right direction.

Exactly - we are becoming a house hold name... soon people will say Bitcoin? bro that is so 5 years ago.. course I own some...


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: counter on September 18, 2014, 01:20:05 AM
Good to see we are passed the phase of being ignored and laughed at.  I've been seeing the acceptance of Bitcoin in the media lately and it's becoming the norm more and more, which is good.  No more laughing every time they user the word Bitcoin.  Instead a real discussion is taking place and for the old school media outlets this is a big step in the right direction.

Exactly - we are becoming a house hold name... soon people will say Bitcoin? bro that is so 5 years ago.. course I own some...

I agree people are interested and have been interested in Bitcoin.  Sense it isn't going anywhere it's likely that people will start asking more questions and making plans to invest.  The better the media is at their job the better for Bitcoin.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: hyperdimension on September 18, 2014, 01:37:17 AM
Great news everyday and it gets better. What can be next?


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: zorke on September 18, 2014, 02:31:25 AM
Good to see we are passed the phase of being ignored and laughed at.  I've been seeing the acceptance of Bitcoin in the media lately and it's becoming the norm more and more, which is good.  No more laughing every time they user the word Bitcoin.  Instead a real discussion is taking place and for the old school media outlets this is a big step in the right direction.

Exactly - we are becoming a house hold name... soon people will say Bitcoin? bro that is so 5 years ago.. course I own some...
Bitcoin has been mentioned by CNN in their articles for years. I believe they were one of the first MSM to report on bitcoin. It is just that it did not really catch on until last fall


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: ndonnard on September 18, 2014, 11:52:58 AM
They'd better update their infographic (http://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/what-is-bitcoin/#sectionThree)


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: MightyStorm on September 21, 2014, 10:06:55 AM
They'd better update their infographic (http://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/what-is-bitcoin/#sectionThree)

"And here we see a cyber criminal selling bitcoins to a pedophile."


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 21, 2014, 02:15:23 PM
other day I landed in 'Merica and I was like... shit... Did I leave my hot wallet on this cell phone.. (Feels like a criminal)

Psssst.... hey... you wanna hold this cell phone for me until we pass through customs?


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: snappa4ever on September 22, 2014, 03:53:05 AM
Good to see we are passed the phase of being ignored and laughed at.  I've been seeing the acceptance of Bitcoin in the media lately and it's becoming the norm more and more, which is good.  No more laughing every time they user the word Bitcoin.  Instead a real discussion is taking place and for the old school media outlets this is a big step in the right direction.

Exactly - we are becoming a house hold name... soon people will say Bitcoin? bro that is so 5 years ago.. course I own some...
I am not sure about this. I do think that bitcoin is becoming more of a household name ever since last november's bubble and the arrest of Ross. I also think that bitcoin will be somewhat of a niche "product" for many years


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: yorma_kappa on September 22, 2014, 05:36:23 AM
"818k followers", but 131 retweets. The retweets is a much better metric of interest, and 131 retweets is absolutely fuck all.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: BratinSbazhin on September 22, 2014, 05:39:41 AM
"818k followers", but 131 retweets. The retweets is a much better metric of interest, and 131 retweets is absolutely fuck all.

That's more than most of their tweets get at least.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: hustler100 on September 22, 2014, 05:40:03 AM
"818k followers", but 131 retweets. The retweets is a much better metric of interest, and 131 retweets is absolutely fuck all.

Actually there is 383 retweets and there is no doubt that this tweet should have preformed much better than it did.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: gonnafly on September 28, 2014, 02:56:09 PM
"818k followers", but 131 retweets. The retweets is a much better metric of interest, and 131 retweets is absolutely fuck all.

That's more than most of their tweets get at least.

So, BTC is about 27% as popular as the Scottish independence vote.
Probably good news.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 28, 2014, 03:28:33 PM
"818k followers", but 131 retweets. The retweets is a much better metric of interest, and 131 retweets is absolutely fuck all.

That's more than most of their tweets get at least.

So, BTC is about 27% as popular as the Scottish independence vote.
Probably good news.

This is good news lol


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: bambino on September 28, 2014, 03:58:30 PM
The tweet is good to see, but the responses are disappointing. Every single one of them is from somebody involved in Bitcoin, which makes this community look even more like an echo chamber. It would be nice to see some curiosity and interest from the average person.

It's pretty much like that everywhere. There were 8 comments on the "Bitcoin, Gold or both" article and all 8 of them were, "GOLD IS SHIT, BITCOIN RULES!" and of course half of those commenters had the bitcoin logo as their avatar lol....


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: Robin_Good on September 28, 2014, 04:29:23 PM
This is actually such good news that the next few weeks will be critical in determining whether it's time to divest.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: logger on September 28, 2014, 04:55:56 PM
Is there a correlation graph that shows the rise/fall of bitcoin based on release of postive/negative news?


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 28, 2014, 05:09:28 PM
Is there a correlation graph that shows the rise/fall of bitcoin based on release of postive/negative news?

FBI SEIZES BTC AND WILL SELL ALL LOLOLOL  (Price spikes 100$ USD lol)
EXPEDIA AND FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES ACCEPT BTC (Price drops 100$ USD)


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: NotAtOld on September 28, 2014, 06:11:20 PM
95% of the retweets and favorites are from people with a vested interest in bitcoin. #success


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 28, 2014, 06:13:06 PM
95% of the retweets and favorites are from people with a vested interest in bitcoin. #success

Remember Satoshi is a Unicorn Bull (Holding 1M+ because #thefuture)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2hpr7d/i_use_satoshi_as_a_benchmark_for_what_bulls/


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: Stedsm on September 28, 2014, 06:20:02 PM
Could I have a link please?
Forbes hasn't done a bitcoin article for some time now, they should get to it again.


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: X7 on September 28, 2014, 06:24:14 PM
Could I have a link please?
Forbes hasn't done a bitcoin article for some time now, they should get to it again.
https://twitter.com/CNNMoney/status/511799183951417344


Title: Re: CNN Mentions Bitcoin on their Twitter feed
Post by: cccarnation on September 28, 2014, 06:50:40 PM
95% of the retweets and favorites are from people with a vested interest in bitcoin. #success

So, 5% proliferation. Not bad.