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Hysterical (In The Crazed Sense) Election Night Tweets

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Twitter Blasphemy Watch: 26,000 Now Call for Death of Hamza Kashgari

As of this morning, over 26,000 Facebookers are calling for the death of poet and feminist Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. The number has been steadily climbing over the past week. If you find this as distressing as … Continue reading

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Twitter Blasphemy: 16,000 Facebookers Agree That Hamza Kashgari Should Be Executed for Insulting the Prophet

The number of people who have joined a Facebook page calling for the death of Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad has climbed from 8,000 on Thursday to 16,000 this morning (I just checked the page). Yesterday, … Continue reading

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Twitter Approaches Poetry

Shitmydadsays is the best use of Twitter I’ve ever encountered. A 28 year old lives with his 73 year old father and simply quotes him periodically. Here’s a sample: “Don’t touch the bacon, it’s not done yet. You let me … Continue reading

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Iran’s Turn: Not Televised, But Twittered?

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“The Serious Me Show”: A YouTube Video by Santi Tafarella

Okay, I couldn’t resist. After making one YouTube video, I tried another one:

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Tricks or Tweets? Twittering Ghostwriters Behind the Machines

Who are all these people who have time to follow the tweets of stars and politicians? And could anything be more pathetic—or wasteful of a human being’s time? Well, yes, there is something more pathetic and wasteful. It turns out that … Continue reading

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The Twitter Slayers?: Will E-Readers and Russell Wilcox’s “E Ink” Save Us From the Dumbing-Down of Civilization?

Electronic media seems to be killing the book business and long-form journalism. Enter Russell Wilcox, CEO of E Ink. He is, according to Fortune magazine, perhaps the savior of the world (Jesus, step aside please). Wilcox is on a mission to literally rescue … Continue reading

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John Cleese of Monty Python on Twittering

John Cleese deconstructs “twittering” in ten short seconds here.

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“I don’t ever want to hear from you again”: The Great and Current Beloved Leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, Lays Down the Party Line

Don’t think. Don’t discuss. Just follow. The authoritarian personality on display: “[T]he people on our side are really making a mistake if they go after Bobby Jindal on the basis of style. Because if you think — people on our … Continue reading

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