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It’s go-time. A new world record for Facebook comments on a single post? And a good portion of the comments came from one simple word -- “go.” An avid player of Facebook game FrontierVille named Cathy Matthews typed “go” over and over as a comment on one record-setting post, and got her online friends to help. Here’s KTXL.
REPORTER: “1, 001,209 responses to a single post, nearly doubling the old record. about 107 of us participated.”
CATHY: “I’m leaving my mark on the world.”
FrontierVille -- which is now called The Pioneer Trail -- is a Zynga game in which players have pioneer avatars and can plant virtual crops and raise animals. The Verge notes -- the game probably prepared Matthews and her friends for their extraordinary task.
“Presumably bonding over their love for engaging in repetitive online activity with little reward, they collectively hit the 1,001,291 mark with an average of 9,358 posts each.”
The record has been sent to the Guiness Book of World Records for review, but ...
“As of June 29 2011, the most comments on a single Facebook item is 529,335, in response to a post made on 10 January 2011, on the Facebook page for Roberto Esposito (Italy).”
By the way -- the million-comment mark -- it’s still climbing.
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