I was slightly doubtful about yesterday’s news that the Library of Congress would be archiving every tweet ever tweeted. My reluctance came from the assertion that the tweets could be useful for academic research. Today, Stupid Fight proved me wrong. The website scans the @ replies to two specific Twitter users for “stupidity indicators” and […]
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That Funny Thing Your Cat Did That You Totally Tweeted About Because It Was Sooo Cute Has Been Validated by the Library of Congress
How is that possible, you ask? The Library of Congress, our national repository of thought, has now archived every tweet ever tweeted since the micro-blogging website was created four years ago. You know… For research purposes. I for one greeted the news with a kind of geeky glee that I would FINALLY be represented in […]
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Ice T vs. Aimee Mann: BEST TWITTER FIGHT EVER!
So singer Aimee Mann twittered: And rapper/actor Ice T responded: TWITTER FIGHT! TWITTER FIGHT! TWITTER FIGHT! (This is how Aimee Mann should respond…) “HE SAID ‘SHUT UP!’ HE SAID ‘SHUT UP!’”
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I Didn’t Hear this Boom Shit but the Twitters Did.
Hey, did you hear a really loud sound tonight in SE Portland? Did it sound like maybe a gun or an explosion and did it make you want to run check Twitter and see if everyone else in this whole Twit-crazed city was posting about how they heard something weird? No one’s really sure what […]
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Eavesdropping on SXSW
If you go here and then click through to view event details on any SXSW “interactive” panels you’re interested in, you’ll find the hashtags listed for each event, if you want to follow along on Twitter (although some of the tags are beyond clunky—”#greatinterviewsadvice”? Ummm, no). I’ve been following #futurebook, a panel on the future […]
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Facebook Has Officially Kicked Google’s Ass
Americans were just Facebookin’ their asses off last week, finally putting the social media giant over the Google mark for most viewed site in the country, according to a new report from Hitwise: It might be time to call your stockbroker.
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This Week on the Bogus Cop Twitter Feed
Oh noes! Someone is spoofing the Portland police on the internets! Sensing a lack of humor in the official @PortlandPolice twitter feed, someone has gone and set up a Twitter account called “pdxpolice”. Unlike the unofficial Columbia River Crossing twitterer, the fake police feed is actually really funny. And for some reason this most recent […]
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Beau Breedlove On Kufo
Beau Breedlove is back in town, and he’s on KUFO at 8:10 this morning. Loathe as I am to give the young man any more attention, well, I kinda can’t resist hearing about “his feelings” on the Aaron Campbell shooting. From his blog: Hey friends! If you’re available, tune in to Portland station 101.1fm, KUFO […]
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Live Twogging Adams’ State Of The City
MAYOR ADAMS AND COMMUNICATIONS BOSS ROY KAUFMANN BEFORE THE MAYOR’S STATE OF THE CITY SPEECH TODAY Using the hashtag #sotcPDX. Feel free to chime in: Update 2:27 Full text of the speech after the jump… 2010: THE STATE OF THE CITYMayor Sam AdamsFeb. 5, 2010 Good afternoon Portlanders, City Club of Portland, members of the […]
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Mayor Adams & the Great Twitter Debate
The Twitters were on fire this weekend over Anna Griffin’s Saturday column in the Oregonian, which suggested Mayor Sam Adams’ incessant Twittering is doing a disservice to his political ambitions: This is attention-deficit governing, driven by insecurity and enabled by the iPhone. In the short term, it creates the false sheen of engagement. Over the […]
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
North Portland realtor and former candidate for State Senate, Fred Stewart, just Facebook’d this link to Martin Luther King, Jr. on “Meet The Press.” It’s fantastic. Watch the interviewer trying to shame King for his arguments “against private business.” Wow. Quoting President Truman, who said private business people had the right to discriminate against “negroes.” […]
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Mysterious New CRC Twitter Feed
When Twitter user ColumbiaBridge followed me two days ago, I thought the feed must be part of the Governor’s new outreach effort to boost support of the controversial Columbia River Crossing (CRC) project. The user joined Twitter on January 11th and signed up to follow 670 people in three days, introducing a CRC-centric hashtag #i5bridge. […]