The tally:
Google alerts: 16 Web stories or blog posts
Twitter: 35 tweets listed as one day or newer.
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Climategate, the ever-growing world response to accusations that climate thought leaders have suppressed or hidden data that rejecting the progress of glacial warming, continues to drive mentions of groupthink on the web. A Twitter search of the term "groupthink" produced 35 Tweets
containing the term, related to the following topics:
Climategate 14
Miscellaneous 11
Politics 4
Twitter 3
Other topics 4
Interesting uses of the term
Twitter itself was accused of conforming when one user, http://twitter.com/je_suis_le_vent stated:
Twitter=groupthink. its making me uncomfortable. and i feel like we arent using it for its intended purpose.
Her comment was retweeted twice.
In another interesting take, Forbes blogger Bruce Upbin using the term in a positive spin when he points out that a crowdsourced collection of Internet stock advisors have developed a sort of "actionable groupthink," regarding stock investments. Read Upbin's post here:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/10/trevis-intel-disney-intelligent-investing-forecast.html
