Yesterday, Twitter banned sportswriter Guy Adams for calling out NBC’s terrible Olympics coverage. It looked like Twitter suspended Adams’s account because he was mocking NBC, and NBC has a corporate sponsorship with Twitter for the duration of the Olympics. Overnight, the news broke that Twitter in fact alerted NBC to Adams’s tweets and urged them […]
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Celebrity Mean Tweets!
Jimmy Kimmel has been gathering cruel, taunting tweets directed at celebrities, and then asking the celebrities to read them on air. Here are the best. (OMG, I WANT TO SEND A MEAN TWEET TO SNOOKI JUST SO I CAN SEE THAT PRICELESS LOOK ON HER FACE AGAIN!!)
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Giving the Homophobes the Attention They’re Looking For
You need a thick gay skin if you’re gonna to follow @homophobes on Twitter. The man behind @homophobes—let’s call him TMB@H for short—searches Twitter for hateful anti-gay tweets, which he turns around and re-tweets to his 8500 followers. TMB@H’s in his early twenties, lives in the United States, and is lucky enough to be working […]
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Jeri Ryan’s “Epic Costco Run”: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?
Just saw this tweet from Star Trek: Voyager‘s Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine). I don’t like the idea of Jeri Ryan doing “epic Costco runs.” DO YOU? (Discuss your stance in the comments.)
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I Am So Disappointed in Twitter
It’s no secret that I love Twitter. It’s my social network of choice, featuring none of the clutter of Facebook and all the inventiveness of a literary form. It’s also more freewheeling than a lot of social networks, rewarding collaboration and promiscuous following habits. And I like how public it is. Anyone who’s used Twitter […]
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Mayor Adams Now Responsible for Reminding You to Put Your Garbage Out
This dingaling twitters: Mayor Adams responds: Dingaling responds back: Can you seriously blame him for not wanting to run again? Portland isn’t a daycare, dingalings!
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Mercury Dining’s Twitter Account!
We warned you, Blogtown. Resident food correspondant Chris Onstad has linked our omnipotence in the dining world to the twittersphere, and you should PAY ATTENTION! We covered Cochon 555, Chris took you on the road for grits, doughnuts, and everything in between, and this lucky girl gets to show you Sake Fest tonight at the […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Hashtags from the End of Humanity
Exhibit A: All the tech-savvy youth inspired to parade their racism by The Hunger Games’ (textually appropriate) use of black actors in key parts. One example among the many collected at the Tumblr Hunger Games Tweets: As Dodai Stewart at Jezebel writes, “The posts go on and on and on. It’s not just a couple […]
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“Hoodie Killed Trayvon Martin as Surely as George Zimmerman” UPDATE: Now With Video
Presented to you without commentary, judgement, analysis, or insight: the words of journalist Geraldo Rivera. This account was not hacked, nor are these images mocked up. These are the last three things he tweeted to his 15,000+ followers as of 8:50am UPDATE: Now with video of Rivera verbalizing his thought process.
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New Mercury Food and Drink Twitter Account
For the sake of timeliness in lighter coverage, I’ve created a Twitter account for up-to-the-minute food and drink news in this town, in my life, and wherever gastronomically germane things are occurring. Follow @PDXMercFD on Twitter to stay in the loop. Chris Onstad Our New Twitter Icon We inaugurated the feed yesterday Sunday, March 11, […]
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Someone Should Go to Jail for This
This just came over the Twitter feed about an hour ago: When I saw it, the very first thought to jump in my head was “GODDAMMIT, ERIK HENRIKSEN!!” For some reason I automatically blamed Erik for this absolutely terrible Dave Coulier joke. And I’m not sure why. All I know is that somebody needs to […]
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Good Girls’ Guide: Dominatrix for Dummies at Theater! Theatre!
Eleanor O’Brien of Dance Naked Productions has an alter ego, and she’s here to help. The Self Help Domme hosts O’Brien’s new one woman show, Good Girls Guide: Dominatrix for Dummies , which is based on O’Brien’s experience taking a job as a professional dominatrix at The Jewel Box while pursing an acting career in […]