... Average rate of new signatures in the past 2 weeks have been:
I'll wait a few days, perhaps till the end og the month, until the change.org petition fades, and then present stats and graphs on how well the Twoof Movement can "mobilze" its "members" to do something about it (sign irrelevant petitions)!
Ok, here are the stats on 4 online petitions at popular petition sites that truthers have started in recent months:
1. petition2congress.org
Started on march 29th.
Only 152 signers so far, in 124 days
In july: 0.4 signers / day
This one is dead.
2. signon.org
Started on april 25th
187 signers so far, in 98 days
In july: 0.2 signers / day
This one is dead.
3. avaaz.org
Started on may 7th. Was offline for a bit later in may
1,524 signers so far, in 85 days
In july: 1.5 signers / day
This is almost dead. It was featured on several truther websites in may and june and for some reason had two spurts, but now has returned to obscurity.
4. change.org
Started on june 19th
638 signer so far, in 42 days
In july: 9.4 1.5 signers / day
This petition is featured on the front page of
ae911truth.org top right. That page is getting around 7,000 hits per day - seems like one in 1,000 visitors to Gage's page finds and signs it.
Almost all petitions,, not just the Twoofer ones, typically get most of their signatures in the first days.
On all four petition websites, if you go to their homepages you will find many many petitions that reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousand of signatures. Of course, everything with cute animals and little children is popular, and also the really big current issues. But you'll frequently find dry, obscure and/or local issues that fare much better than 9/11 Twoof.
For example, earlier in this thread, on april 6th, I linked to a UK petition to put mathematician and IT pioneer Alan Turing on the British ten-poubd note.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31659
It had 14,104 signatures since march 21st then, and has now improved to 21,118.
On the same day, april 6th, a petition on change.org to honour some gay Harvard students a century later had 14,338 signatures.
It is now at 17.848 - a plus of ca. 3,500 signatures. Almost twice of what all new truther petitions taken together have achieved!
It is totally unclear what truthers want to achieve. I don't really see them talk about what happens with these petitions afterwards. The change.org petition by AE911Truth actually asks President Obama to watch their docu. Hello?? Even I don't have the time to watch that crap! Who do they think they are folling? Who in their right mind signs such a demand?
That's the biggest backpedal I've seen in ages!
