Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Thanks to KTAR!
A Kansas teen received more attention than she anticipated last week when she used 140 characters to criticize the state’s governor.
During a school event, Emma Sullivan tweeted about her less than desirable interaction with Gov. Sam Brownback.
Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot.”
Having gotten word of the tweet the governor’s staff contacted school administrators and demanded an apology from Sullivan. But this week, the teen tweeter was the one getting an apology…from the Gov. Brownback himself!
My staff overreacted to this tweet, and for that I apologize. Freedom of speech is among our most treasured freedoms.”
Image from Reuters
Wave goodbye: Italy’s Prime Minister on his way out.
This train don’t stop: Cain vows to stay in the race.
Can you find me now? GPS tracking worries highest court.
Heaven getting heavy? Rapper Heavy D dies.
Thanks to The Atlantic!
#TwitterGetsPolitical: Hashtags make their name in campaigns.
Could it get any worse? Cain faces another obstacle in election.
Five dollar fiasco: Bank of America forgoes debit card fees.
Image Thanks to the Tomahawk Take
Everybody loves an underdog…errr, bird: the Cardinals come back and win the World Series!
Twitter, China, and Human Rights
Who has student loan debt? A Colorlines infographic breaks it down.
When do Halloween costumes cross the line?
Do you find yourself shaking your head in disbelief or shouting at the telelvision screen during US televised debates? We would like to offer you a more sane alternative. Join us on Twitter tonight during the CNN GOP debate. You can participate in the discussion or just watch as others they shake their head in disbelief and shout at their telelvision screens in 140 characters.
You can find us at www.twitter.com/usdemocrazy
If you want to voice your enjoyment/frustration/alarm/delight with the current crop of Republican Presidential candidates…
Join us tonight as USDemocrazy provides Twitter coverage of the event tonight. The debate will be broadcast on TV via Fox at 9PM…we can be found at http://twitter.com/#!/usdemocrazy.
In this political witch-hunt, no Republican is safe.
Obama for America recently started the website AttackWatch.com. The site gives the average person the opportunity to report criticisms of the president and his initiatives. This is supposed to help the American public “Get the facts. Fight the smears”, the website’s slogan.
Allegations and responses are stored in the “Attack Files”.
This article in the Wall Street Journal calls the website a “Twitter Disaster”, noting that the site’s twitter feed is is full of “zingers”. Not exactly going as planned, we suppose.
So how do you feel? Is this a good idea, or is it screaming 1984 to you?
Thanks to Chicago Tribune!
Dick’s dictation: Former VP’s memoir is reveals secrets and raises eyebrows.
Hit the hardest? Vermont towns isolated after Irene.
A peaked prophet: Convicted Polygamist leader in critical condition.
Beyoncé’s baby breaks record. Entertainer’s pregnancy is biggest Twitter news…ever!
And, what’s Mario up to?
Armadebtdon. It’s the end of the world as we know it, according to Jon Stewart, who was not enthused with the President’s speech last Monday.
After the debt ceiling video debate, (if you want to call two separate speeches a debate— transcripts of the President’s message and Boehner’s response) citizens responded.
Websites of congressmen were flooded with users/citizens outrage. Servers went down as emails of protest overwhelmed the systems.
Some were following Obama’s proclamation:
So I’m asking you all to make your voice heard. If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your Member of Congress know. If you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message.
By message did he mean a letter or a tweet?
Twitter reported on the server shut downs and many Congress members took to the social networking site to respond to constituents.
Both speeches acknowledged American frustration with government, without drawn-out apologies, which has been made evident in most citizen interviews.
If you check out this recent Washington Post poll, under question #23, only 30% of Americans would re-elect their congressperson.
So Obama called us out and many Americans took to the online social network. Should they have been marching in Washington?
This may be the beginning of a new era like when FDR called citizens to their televisions with maps in which he said these words:
“It is your problem, my friends, your problem no less than it is mine.Together we cannot fail.”
Obama similarly expressed at the end of his video:
The entire world is watching. So let’s seize this moment to show why the United States of America is still the greatest nation on Earth – not just because we can still keep our word and meet our obligations, but because we can still come together as one nation.
Early Monday morning FoxNews sent out a series of Twitter posts stating that President Obama was dead.
Apparently, the Twitter account had been hacked by an unknown source. The Hacker sent out six messages describing the assassination of Obama by two fatal gunshots.
Although the posts weren’t available for long, many Twitter followers were distressed by the abrupt news.
FoxNews apologized profusely for the false information explaining
Hackers sent out several malicious and false Tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated. Those reports are incorrect, of course, and the president is spending the July 4 holiday with his family. The hacking is being investigated, and FoxNews.com regrets any distress the false Tweets may have created
Should this hack-attack be treated as a high spirited prank or should this be cause for alarm?
To Tweet or not to Tweet? that is the question.
It also may be a legal question…
In the UK, it seems Brits have their knickers in a twist about Twitter and individual privacy.
The con-flab started when a British Soccer star (identified only as CTB) was having an alleged affair with a reality TV star.
When some Twitter users revealed the identity of the athlete in question, he blew a gasket. He then obtained a High Court order asking Twitter to hand over details of users who had revealed his identity.
The Twittersphere responded with characteristic relish. Within hours hundreds more twitterers (or is tweeters? twits?) exposed the offended footballer.
Now it appears, these online exposers may have broken the law.
They would be guilty of contempt of court under the law of England and Wales and liable to an unlimited fine or even a two-year prison sentence.
Ouch! Still it appears these tweeting rebels have safety in numbers. It will be hard to single out one offender out of the masses.
Now more questions are being raised about freedom of expression and social media.
There was the case of Paul Chambers who was prosecuted in the UK for posting a tweet about blowing up an airport. The charge was “sending a menacing electronic communication”.
Is Tweeting really that dangerous?
By this time I’m sure we’ve all heard the advice: never post anything on your Facebook that you don’t want the world to see.
Embarrassing pictures can cost you your job, and status updates can make that mean girl hate you even more.
But Twitter is also a kind of social media that can get you into trouble… like being charged with ESPIONAGE.
Shawna Gorman is at the center of accusations saying she is a Twitter spy. (Just think, with a little online flirting, a little innocent question asking, you could be labeled a super spy).
To be fair Shawna was allegedly running in the security and defense crowd. You know, CIA and Predator Drones. When you’re a cute Twitter star in a bikini and you start asking “need to know” questions to the lonely old intelligence man… people will tend to get suspicious.
A full version of this story by Wired is available here.
Just remember, your actions on the Internet have consequences. So don’t tweet anything you wouldn’t want your mother or the attorney general to see.
Thanks to MSNBC
The cost of coverage: Two award-winning journalists killed while covering rebel forces in Libya.
Something to laugh about? Democrats mock GOP of Medicare cuts.
Placing the blame: BP sues oil rig manufacturer in Gulf Oil Spill.
American Idol is here to stay. Recent increases in ratings point to a solid future for the 10-year-old reality show.
We have heard lots recently about social media. Things like Facebook and Twitter which weren’t around 10 years ago are now powerful forces in the world. Experts have been particularly interested in how social media has impacted the changing Middle East.
One of these experts is Zeynep Tufekci. She has particular interest in”the social impacts of technology and social media.” She has made numerous media appearances discussing these issues as they pertain to the Middle East.
We at USDemocrazy had the good fortune to interview her recently (See above).
This interview is the first of a series we are offering in conjunction with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Talking Heads blog.
Check out the video and give us your thoughts.
The guy behind the @MayorEmanuel poetry is revealed!
We get boycotting the Olympics to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan and stuff… but boycotting over a logo? Leave it to Iran!
Will these big stars give away the money they got from Gaddafi?
This? Just go with it:
