All Posts Tagged With: "Twitter"

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Tweeting Teen More Media Savvy Than Gov. Brownback

“I don’t think I should write the letter, and I don’t think it would be the best move for me,” Emma Sullivan, 18, said late Sunday night. “At this time, I do not think an apology would be a sincere thing for me to do.”

28Nov2011 | pandora | 4 comments | Continued
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Twitter: The Ultimate Political Sound Bite

The 2008 Presidential campaign was brought to you be Youtube. 2012? Most likely it will be run on Twitter.

30Dec2010 | nemski | Comments Off | Continued
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Because I Can… Tweet

Alas, I have given in and sent my first tweet 2 hours ago (@Pandoradl).  Needless to say, I have provided two hours of amusement for Nemski.  He even has me performing Twitter Tricks… like challenging me to add a photo without asking my kids for help.  And Geek had a chuckle with a joke about [...]

7Jun2010 | pandora | 4 comments | Continued
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Tom Corbett Hates Free Speech

Pennsylvania AG and GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett issued subpoenas to Twitter to find out the identity of critics.

21May2010 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
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Insurance Commissioner Enlists Local Help

Last night I received an inscrutable email from my fellow blogger and former Sussex County Republican Chair, Dave Burris. This is not unusual, I rarely understand what he is talking about. But I just received a press release that makes even less sense.

Karen Weldin Stewart, The Delaware Insurance Commissioner, has enlisted the help of David Burris of Milford to assist the Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) in local outreach and public relations.

1Apr2010 | liberalgeek | 45 comments | Continued
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Politweets

In general I stay away from Politico as it is the TMZ of political journalism, but it has stayed in my news reader for some reason. And today I learned why. There’s a short little article about the top 10 political tweets of 2009. Here is one from the Iranian Student protests:
It was a nightmare, [...]

28Dec2009 | nemski | 1 comment | Continued
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Silly Democrats, Tricks Are For GOPers

In Connecticut where it is more rare to meet a Republican than in Delaware, the CT GOP is up to their Lee Atwater in dirty tricks, reports the Hartford Advocate. The Democrats lead the Republicans in the state House, 114-27, and the state Senate, 24-12, thought it would be a good idea to create Twitter [...]

27Oct2009 | nemski | 3 comments | Continued
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Late Night Video — When Twitter Says Good Morning

Fascinating visualization of data from blprt, this video’s creator:

24Oct2009 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued
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I Take Mine Everywhere

Ummm….what? Meghan McCain, daughter of failed presidential candidate John McCain, was forced to apologize for titillating conservatives.
Republican firebrand Meghan McCain’s skimpy pajamas have her conservative followers all atwitter, forcing the daughter of failed 2008 presidential candidate Sen. John McCain to apologize for posting a racy photo of her décolletage.
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“I do want to apologize to [...]

16Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 41 comments | Continued
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Arrested For Twittering

Put this in the you have to be kidding me files:
When deciding how to organize activities of questionable legal nature, it’s not always wise to choose a popular and widely available communications medium that even the police know about. When 41-year-old anarchist Elliot Madison got himself arrested in late September, he learned that lesson the [...]

5Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
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Dispatch From An Alternate Reality #3

Republicans have really taken the solidarity with the people of Iran a little too far.
From the #twitter fail files:
Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) tweeted:
Good to see Iranian people move mountains w social media, shining sunlight on their repressive govt – Texans support their bid for freedom
Oppressed minorities include [...]

18Jun2009 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
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Tweeting, First State Style

Twitter is making some big news of late, so big in fact it has made the most recent cover of Time magazine
Before I get started, I’m not a twitter expert by any means, I’m just enjoying it
And this isn’t meant to be an all encompassing review of twitter, just a brief introduction in spurts of [...]

8Jun2009 | nemski | 16 comments | Continued

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