I gave up some time ago with taking in genuine reaches…..it was a feckin` goon mostly.Just handled the flow myself as best I could…bet many of you did that?On that last point of 19 out of 20 blowing after first reach…that fig remaining??,about as close to 2,5% as you can get?Makes sense!

The CoS viewpoint is that the internet tends to be entheta and “active scientologists” should not generally be searching for Scientology on the internet. The spikes in traffic seem to correlate most heavily with major news stories about Scientology, Tom Cruise in particular. So the google trend rankings are probably more representative of “wog” interest in Scientology than “total” interest in Scientology.

The news spikes suggest lots of people have heard the name “Scientology”, but the majority of the press is bad news. Though if you look closely at the tend chart, and ignore the news spikes, you will see that the baseline for searches on Scientology is also slowly trending downwards. The baseline is likely somewhat correlated to the rate of change within Scientology rather than total membership (number of people thinking of joining, number of people thinking of leaving, number of active members + number of activists).

The best propaganda reading of this is slow steady growth. New people lookup scientology online, join, then stop searching online, to be replaced by a steady stream of new people. Even with this reading, overall growth is slowing.

Another reading is that Scientology is becoming more insular, and engaging less with the internet, except for official PR channels. If half the Scientology queries are from activists, then the other half is from Scientoloists starting to look outside the PR bubble, which would be the first step towards leaving. This reading would suggest that the Church is slowing and steadily getting smaller. The declining interest in Scientology is due to a combination of the church getting smaller (thus fewer people left to leave) and the total internet population getting bigger (relative to Scientology).

Now lets compare Scientology, Dalai Lama, Islam, Anonymous, Pope Francis

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=scientology,+/m/07r1h&cmpt=q&content=1#q=scientology%2C%20%2Fm%2F028g3%2C%20%2Fm%2F0flw86%2C%20%2Fm%2F03nr1np%2C%20%2Fm%2F05ngt2&cmpt=q

Ignoring the news spikes, Scientology has as much attention on it as the Dalai Lama as a one man band. Anonymous peaked in 2012, but still has 2-3x as much attention as Scientology. As for “Worlds Fastest Growing Religion (TM)” even the biggest news stories about Tom Cruise fall well short of the baseline interest in Islam (Christianity not shown has a similar line to Islam). As for celebrity pulling power, Pope Francis is far bigger than To Cruise.

LOL!

Go look at the scores for @Scientology. 10% Fake followers. 71% inactive followers. 19% good followers. Consider that they have 12.4K followers that means that at out of 12,000 supposed followers 10,000 are now inactive or not real. Sort of follows the whole scene doesn’t it

Yeah Dave, swallow that with your fancy Scotch.

Robyn

You are so right.

Being upfront and honest is so refreshing in Scientology.

The name of Scientology is totally screwed thanks to the midget that threw it under the bus to save his tiny little ass, but it lives on in our hearts and souls.

Let me know when there’s a click button that deletes Dave