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Twitter Happy: Obama Calls Kanye a ‘Jackass’
In case you were wondering what the President of the United States thinks about Kanye West and the VMA incident: As for how this got out … [click] "In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted …
@WAS_Nationals Not Very Good at Twitter Either
UPDATE: @frankstrategies alerts us that this Twitter account might not be official. Whew. We still however think this would be a great idea for a fan give-away. —————————————————- It’s no mystery that the Nats need a little help on the field. We also know they can’t spell . But now …
Twitter Spoils Election Results [What’s Next?]
Some Germans are not pleased with the Twitter bird. German politicians warned of a "damage to democracy" on Monday after exit polls for three state elections were leaked on Twitter, the second time in recent months results have appeared ahead of time. Future headline: Twitter Ruins Christmas. Santa Pissed.
New Media Relations 3.0 [Press Releases Out to Pasture]
Is today a new day for wired communications? First, the Kennedy family set up a Twitter feed to update all news related to Senator Kennedy’s funeral. Forget press releases (that was SO 2008), it’s Twitter time. [press releases sent out to pasture] Secondly, reporters are now taking to Twitter feeds …
Famously Unemployed: #hirekatesheppard
We don’t know who @KateSheppard is, but hell, we figured we’d help her find a job. From her Twitter page: Unemployed enviroment/politics reporter, looking for jobs in journalism, or otherwise screwing The Man. And just how is she handling unemployment? Even a grilled cheese sandwich didn’t make today any better. …
@anamariecox Owns Twitter
The rest of us are just paying rent. Cox currently has 1,051,254 followers – which means #FDC is a mere 1,047,329 from catching up. She even tweets while on vacation: There are few folks I’d vacay-tweet for, but one of them is @clairecmc ; livestream of her KC town hall …
Office Space: Facebook vs. Twitter
In case you were wondering who had the cooler office space, wonder no more. [we didn’t really care either, but whatever]
Ever Heard of a Twitterview?
Thanks to National Journal’s Under the Influence , we now know the Twitterview didn’t die John McCain and George Stephanopoulos Sara Jerome: What EPolitics Founder Learned From Obama When Epolitics.com founder Colin Delany describes himself, he sounds more like a surgeon than a blogger, devoted to "dissecting the craft of …
Tech Adventure: The Greatest Social Media Experience on Wheels
It might be soon be dubbed the greatest social media experience on wheels — and you’re invited. It’s called the Tech Adventure , and it’s a first-ever attempt to take the "i" out of iPhone and give like-minded digital media experts the things what "we" want: adventure and booze. Trust …
Does This Mean Rachel Maddow Accounts for 40.55 Percent of All Tweets?
Here’s something you knew, but never had the facts to back: Forty percent of the messages on Twitter are "pointless babble" along the lines of "I am eating a sandwich now," according to a study conducted by a US market research firm. [a little bird told us] Pointless babble also …
Twitter [Along With Millions of Congressional Constituents] Under Denial of Service Attack
Twitter is currently defending itself from a "denial of service" attack: [we didn’t know what it was either] …an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. This means Twitter joins millions of users [congressional constituents] across the country who are unable to get the proper resources …
#Twitter Is Down
There is no reason to freak out. Twitter isn’t working and you still have six and a half hours left at work. Here are a few sites to help you kill time until you’re back up and tweeting again: Deadspin Vanity Fair’s write-up of Mad Men FishbowlDC U Do the …
The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful 2009 | A Few More Thoughts
Below is additional commentary via the #CapHill50 tag: MVHelsing Out of deference to Maxine Waters, I declined an offer to be on the #CapHill50 list this year. Was the least I could do. lauraemilyd #CapHill50 interesting picks this year. rthowell Maxine Waters… really?? SJL has a few up on her …