Google Glass winners list dominated by celebrities, popular Twitter accounts

How random was Google’s process of choosing winners for the #ifihadglass contest on Twitter and Google+ after all? Days after Google rescinded certain invites for the gig after they “slipped through”, it has been revealed that the list of final winners is dominated by celebrities and Twitter users who have a large follower base. A Stanford CS Ph.D student called Andrej Karpathy put together publically available data about the winners of Google Glass to reveal that nearly 61 percent of the winners had more than 100 and less than 1,000 followers on Twitter. Also, a smooth seven percent of the winner base had more than a whopping 10,000 followers.

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