Urban Dictionary adds TwitterDead

July 19, 2009
By Emily Miller

Emily Miller at www.PoliticsDaily.com coined the term. TwitterDead is defined as someone who is said to have died in a tweet, which is retweeted so often that it trends in Twitter so others believe the celebrity is Really Dead. (If you can’t follow the previous sentence, you need to get a lesson on Twitter...
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Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney Fundraising for 2012 White House

July 17, 2009
By Emily Miller
Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney Fundraising for 2012 White House

Surprising the inside-the-Beltway crowd, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin raised $732,867 in the first half of 2009. SarahPAC, her Washington, D.C.-area fundraising organization, has proven to be organized and effective, despite reports to the contrary. The FEC filing for Jan. 1-June 15, 2009 shows that SarahPAC had 709 itemized donor receipts, some of which were...
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Sarah Palin Promises to be Less Politically Correct on Twitter

July 17, 2009
By Emily Miller
Sarah Palin Promises to be Less Politically Correct on Twitter

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin let everyone know on Twitter that she is just 10 days from throwing off the reins of elected office to go rogue. Referencing her announcement to step down as governor on July 26, she posted this tweet Friday: “elected is replaceable;Ak WILL progress! + side benefit=10 dys til less politically...
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A Local Family Adopts a Green Lifestyle

July 15, 2009
By Emily Miller
A Local Family Adopts a Green Lifestyle

Having young children made one local couple see both their home and the world differently. In the past five years, they have gone from Range Rover to Prius and from carbon footprint to carbon toeprint. “Going Green” for these parents means creating a safer home their two young children and preserving the earth...
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New York Times Schott’s Vocab on TwitterDead

July 14, 2009
By Emily Miller
New York Times Schott’s Vocab on TwitterDead

According to Corcoran, blogger Emily Miller coined the term TwitterDead to describe the cyber-deceased. Writing for Politics Daily, Miller explained: TwitterDead is defined as someone who is said to have died in a tweet, which is retweeted so often that it trends in Twitter so others believe the celebrity is Really Dead. (For the uninitiated, a...
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Obama to Hone His Pitch in Broadcast Booth at All-Star Game

July 13, 2009
By Emily Miller
Obama to Hone His Pitch in Broadcast Booth at All-Star Game

Take me out to the ballgame, take me out with the crowds . . . President Obama will be in the Fox broadcast booth at the 80th Major League Baseball All-Star game in St. Louis tomorrow, according to Sports Illustrated. The First Sportscaster is scheduled to join announcers Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in...
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Sarah Palin Loves Twitter

July 10, 2009
By Emily Miller

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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EMILY’S POST: Reese Witherspoon Washington Whirwhind

July 10, 2009
By Emily Miller
EMILY’S POST:  Reese Witherspoon Washington Whirwhind

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 the...
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New York Times: TwitterDead Coined by Emily Miller

July 10, 2009
By Emily Miller
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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Ensign, Edwards, Sanford: Adultery & God

July 9, 2009
By Emily Miller

Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) wrote to his mistress: “God never intended for us to do this… He wants to restore Darlene + me + wants to restore Doug + you. More than that He wants to restore our relationship to Him.” Former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) said on ABC of his extramarital affair: “In...
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Obama Approval Falls as Unemployment Rises

July 9, 2009
By Emily Miller

A new poll released Thursday shows that President Obama’s approval rating slipped following news that the country lost another 467,000 jobs last month. Meanwhile, Obama supporter Warren Buffet said on ABC Thursday morning that he predicts the current 9.5 percent unemployment rate still “has a ways to go” before it peaks. The daily presidential...
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The Week: Peter King vs. Michael Jackson

July 7, 2009
By Emily Miller

There’s a difference, said Emily Miller in AOL’s Politics Daily. Peter King is the only public official so far with “enough chutzpah to denounce the despicable official and media homage to Michael Jackson.” The “media love fest” is bad enough, but King also takes a “subtle swipe” at Democrats, who led a moment of...
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