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Woman Aims to Break World Record for Facebook Comments With One Million Posts, Mostly Two-Letter Words

This is one of those stories that starts big, and then makes you go, “oh.” Here’s the big part: Sacramento, CA resident and FrontierVille player Cathy Matthews has acquired some one million comments on a single Facebook post. That’s quite a feat, but here’s the part that wrinkles the whole thing: Most of the comments were two-letter words. “Go” seems to have been a popular one.

Currently, Matthews’ post is sitting with 1,001,291 replies. Though Matthews’ repetitious two-letter word strategy seems to have been essential in getting the post over the one million mark, she wasn’t alone. About 107 of her Facebook pals joined in, meaning that the average number of posts is around 9,000 per person. Though The Guinness Book of World Records has been contacted, there’s no official word if this is the new record holder. Considering that the previous record was a mere 529,335, however, Matthews seems like a shoe-in.

When asked by local news channel Fox40, Matthews said that she was aiming for the world record simply to make her mark on the world. She’s quoted as saying:

“I’m no spring chicken anymore and I really haven’t done anything phenomenal,” laughed Matthews.

While it’s easy to mock an endeavor like this, it’s not so different than trying to unlock an in-game achievement or trying to beat any given arcade game. So I’m saying good on her for pulling it together, and hopefully setting the bar so high that no one will attempt this again.

(Fox40 via The Next Web)

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  • Nattie

    hummmm it is tracey hodgson’s record cathy was just a participant in this like myself 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000026173850 Tracey Hodgson

    but was nattie(above comment)’s idea, and we all helped, but was me and nattie who set it up, got people to help, and managed the group-aswell as commenting plenty ourselves, and not just 2 letter words

  • Nattie

    yes we all started off with film titles song titles artist names etc was only the 2nd half that we commented just words and tracey read books on it also it was a group effort and not just 1 person as this is suggesting 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000026173850 Tracey Hodgson

    my friend nattie murphy saw the record and suggested to me to do it, so i said would be great to do this for our group-show what we are capable of when we work together.i admin in a gaming group and that’s why i was inspired, to boost our group morale. i personally talked of many things, bands, songs, movies, all kinds of things, then someone had idea to read books, i read 3, and also alot of chatting in between lol, many did this also, and some boosted the numbers with two word repeated comments.we had over 107 help but many left the record group because the constant notifications lol, but was mostly 4 of us (including cathy matthews) at a time at the most commenting.was my friend ty suggested as we got close to 600 thousand comments we go for 1 million comments, and when i put to nattie we took to that idea quickly and went for it. it feels fantastic to have been able to do this for our group, my dear friend lhai macuha-well we stuck together in running the groups for over a year now, and i wouldn’t still be doing it if not for her, so also good to do as a thank you to her. and am so pleased to have had nattie murphy work so hard with me on this-wouldn’t have finished the record without her. i started to play frontierville because my daughter started it on my facebook lol, and i took over it, then moreso got into the helping side through the groups, i don’t actually play it anymore, but love the people have met through it, and love to be able to help them enjoy the game still.
    - that is the full quote i actually sent the records people, they changed my words slightly but combined with the misleading story from huffpost with cathys interview people have got by far the wrong impression, this was never meant to go to the news and would not have done if not for one member-yes cathy was just a member who joined in after we spent couple of weeks organising and after about 6 days of us commenting -she was not not a claimant-going to the press because as she said she wanted to ‘make her mark’. it was merely about showing our group what we can do when we work together out of friendship,it wasn’t even anything to do with the game, the only reason i mentioned the game in my quote is the records people asked me about why i started playing, because of cathy mentioning it in her interview. if it was meant to go to the news-i would have put a more interesting worthwhile post to comment about.but in actual fact if this was designed to be a news headline i would have had nothing to do with it-i value my privacy and have no desire to be in the news, am just sick of people think they can judge by the words of a misleading tv interview i had no part in whatsoever. and have asked them to correct.we knew this would not be put in the record book because it’s only a facebook record, and as said-it was not meant to be taken to the news people, that was the action of one member as soon as we hit 1 million comments ,that made it a mis-informed news story, i myself doubted this would be approved as a valid attempt because of the comments added by cathy and a few others that were short and repeated.many of those who took part in this have jobs,children, families and otherwise more important things to do with their time which is why at any one time during the attempt were no more than maybe 4 of us commenting-i never said was the same 4 constantly-it was not, and there were many times when nobody was commenting for some period of time. i only mentioned cathy as an acknowledgement of her part in it all.now a well meant attempt simply to boost our groups morale has been made to look like a sad bunch of people trying to hit news by ‘cheating’ (and by the way-the record people were asked if the repeated commenting of 2 letter words was permitted and we were told yes-though i still continued to comment by reading and chatting)their way into the record book-well it is true what they say-you should not judge a book by it’s cover and those who have over this should be ashamed of themselves.  this is a standard comment being put to hopefully help correct all the false information being spread over the internet


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