url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/10/sarah-palin-loves-twitter/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';After vicious personal attacks against her and her family, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is circumventing mainstream media and communicating directly with the public via the social networking site Twitter. Like the scene from “Network,” the classic movie satire of network television news, Palin is essentially sticking her head out the window and yelling: “I’m...
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Archive for July 10th, 2009
Sarah Palin Loves Twitter
EMILY’S POST: Reese Witherspoon Washington Whirwhind
url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/10/emily%e2%80%99s-post-reese-witherspoon-washington-whirwhind/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC'; Reese Witherspoon has finished filming a movie in DC and gone home to LA. Let us have a moment of silence to remember the weeks we had the perfect, blonde, sprite in our midst. I tried to see her in real life, but the gods were against me (as were the doormen at...
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New York Times: TwitterDead Coined by Emily Miller
This is not the case on Twitter, which is just as useful for disseminating bad tips as good ones. The blogger Emily Miller at Politics Daily has coined the term TwitterDead to refer to victims of the latest hoaxes.
Biz Stone, a founder of Twitter, said by e-mail, “We don’t typically identify rumors as abuse,...
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