[morph1138]

I think the PR mistake he's talking about is the Walking Dead Season 2 box set that has some character spoilers.

[Jane Smith]

 

[zeighy]

Maybe some site has posted about the possibilities (and could have been a spoiler) about the movie.... like you know how certain sites try to flesh down aspects of a movie attempting to examine it even before it's released...

I couldn't think of any other reason for such post...

[blackfeathers]

thebruce wrote:

Also, called it! (the how, that is ) http://twitter.com/WaylandCorp/statuses/175325249989124098 "I happened to notice the misspelled Wayland in the background to the TED video and checked to see if it existed on twitter." Nice sleuthing, blackfeathers. That is a prime example of what ARGers are naturally drawn to do

thank you

i couldn't have done it alone. thanks to guestuser17 for the tip which led to the rest. it's nice when fellow arg'ers have each others' backs. a bit of hive mind mentality helps.

gotta give the wayland twitter credit for coming clean.

a bit later (a few days ago now), @damonlindelof posted this cryptic message:
http://twitter.com/DamonLindelof/status/175378899201560577

Quote:

I know sites need to generate traffic, but exploiting a dimwitted PR mistake and using it to justify spoiling a major twist is uncool.

what specifically he's referring to is unclear. this can be interpreted many ways.

[iRobotZombie]

Go go gadget excitement

[Icon of Sin]

Icon of Sin wrote:

Perhaps the Wayland Industries page (obviously not the twitter account) is "in game" and it is there as a group of people who are "anti-Weyland" and is a page setup to fool people, or just bash Weyland Industries eventually. Just ruminating... First time posting since the cloverfield arg.

[Icon of Sin]

Perhaps the Wayland Industries page is "in game" and it is there as a group of people who are "anti-Weyland" and is a page setup to fool people, or just bash Weyland Industries eventually.

Just ruminating...

First time posting since the cloverfield arg.

[thebruce]

Also, called it! (the how, that is )
http://twitter.com/WaylandCorp/statuses/175325249989124098
"I happened to notice the misspelled Wayland in the background to the TED video and checked to see if it existed on twitter."

Nice sleuthing, blackfeathers. That is a prime example of what ARGers are naturally drawn to do

[GuestUser17]

blackfeathers wrote:

thanks for the heads up, guestuser17 the waylandcorp twitter account used a few twitter clients: -web -YoruFukurou -twitter for ipad the suspected twitter user uses... guess what? Spoiler (Rollover to View): YoruFukurou what are the odds of anybody using that particular client? it does have his signature and i'm leaning more towards this aspect of the puzzle of @waylandcorp as oog unless we officially hear otherwise. yutani corp uses web client and rt'ed a few so that one is still up in the air for me until skyrocket media llc can be fully disproved.

It was just confirmed that the user was who I thought. @WaylandCorp is out of game unless the PM's pick it up. Good work blackfeathers.

[thebruce]

As for Weyland vs Wayland -- take anything WAYLAND with a grain of salt.

If the only in-game connection is a very tiny, relatively blurry instance of "wayland", for which someone may have easily, and very quickly, set up red herrings to capture as much activity on "wayland" variants as possible; Whether as an intentional gamejack or not.

I'd think that if it's a typo and it was caught officially, they would forward misspellings to the proper locations. I'd expect waylandindustries.com for example to transfer visitors to weylandindustries.com

As for @WaylandCorp on twitter, possibly the same result - presumably the official response would be to register that account, and either leave it empty to stop spoofers, or direct users to the proper Twitter account (be there one, of course).


So yeah, IMO, until there's blatant in-game connection to anything "Wayland", I'd take it with a grain of salt. Gamejacking can still be done by extremely skilled people and have all the appearance of official connection, yet still play havoc with followers.

That said, it could still be official. There's just no way to be sure yet as the only connection could easily be a typo that potentially could have been taken advantage of.

/my 2p

[Jane Smith]

https://www.weylandindustries.com/

^^^^^^ IN Game note wEyland NOTE the E




http://www.waylandindustries.com....

OOG^^^^^^^^^^ wAyland note the fail..




Now who is waiting on the Elysium Viral as well
~~~jEynE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tL5eP_LjWP8

http://armadyne.net

[Digideus]

blackfeathers wrote:

whois info signs all point to fake. oog. unless we hear otherwise.

...But its on the end of the TED video! it cant be OOG, can it?

[JumboTron]

IllusionOfLife wrote:

I asked @DamonLindelof about it earlier (since he had been tweeting about the TED Talk) but I did not get any response.

Considering the dumb-a$$ way that Lost ended did you really expect any decent answers from him?!!

[blackfeathers]

Digideus wrote:

http://www.waylandindustries.com/ different landing page?

^ whois info signs all point to fake. oog. unless we hear otherwise.


skyrocket media, llc:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

the owner has a twitter page: @JohnDomrzalski. curious twitter posts to say the least. he appears to either have potential for interfering with the arg or is actually a part of it in some way. i'd take it as oog but keep an eye open.

[Digideus]

http://www.waylandindustries.com/

different landing page?