Dim WitsGate™ makes it to the front page of the Washington Post! That means the story of Robert Henson's Twittered insults of Redskins fans — calling them "dim wits" and saying they "work 9 to 5 at Mcdonalds" — occupies the same real estate where Watergate became the original -Gate!
Bottom line: Cheap Seats Daily's hype [...]
Best story of the Rams game: Dim WitsGate!
Robert Henson is in a bad place right now. The Skins sub-benchwarmer used Twitter to go after home fans for booing at the game, and cast the disgruntled masses in the stands as "dim wits" and folks who "work 9 to 5 at mcdonalds."
Henson, who wasn't even on [...]
*Remember the huff over Monica Hesse's piece on Brian Brown? The one from August 28, in which she describes the NOM executive director as "pleasantly, ruthlessly sane"? Nearly two weeks later, this thing still has legs. About this time last week, Rebecca Armendariz of the Washington Blade denounced Hesse's story as a dangerous “puff piece.” [...]
There's been much hand-wringing of late over @MayorFenty, assumed to be Hizzoner's official Twitter feed.
But something wasn't quite right about it. The first tweet, on July 27, informed the world that this was a summer-jobs project. There's the poor design and copyediting, not up to the EOM's usual standards. Then there was the repeated admonitions [...]
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty – or, rather, his Twitter stand-in, if anyone wants to own up to serving in that role – asked in a tweet early this morning: "Do DC residents want District government officials twitter use to be for entertainment, news or answering questions from voters?"
One word, @MayorFenty: entertainment!
After a few weeks of micro-blogging, I think I’ve figured out what Twitter is good for: all manner of information whizzing by haphazardly. I miss 90 percent of this stream-of-consciousness info. stream, what with real work to do. But when I take the time, there is usually some funky item worth crowing about.
Check out this set [...]
So a new survey has found that most of what goes on in the Twittersphere is "pointless babble."
Seems the fake Adrian Fenty Twitterer, "FentyDC," now has some competition. From the real Fenty – or, "MayorFenty."
Adam Ostrow of the social media site mashable.com wondered what people did during the Twitter outage yesterday.
"I rocked in the corner by myself, slowly slipping into madness."
"I returned six months of phone calls, gave blood, pulled weeds, mastered knee-hooping, kicked all my computers at least once, and took pictures of my butt."
"I spent time with [...]
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm going to start following John Quincy Adams on Twitter (@JQAdams). I mean, just out of common courtesy. The guy's been dead for a really long time and he's sending out tweets!
Redskins training camp opened yesterday without Stephen Strasburg Brian Orakpo or Michael Vick. There was, however, a group of fans calling for the team to bring Vick in. Spurned ex-Redskin LaVar Arrington wondered on his WJFK radio show whether the Vick clique was hired by Dan Snyder as a "guerilla marketing campaign" to prepare the [...]
DCist is reporting that the Real World DC cast may be arriving right friggin now. Has anybody been this excited by the arrival of more d-bags into D.C.? DCist writes:
"A tipster just texted that the D.C. Real World cast appears to be arriving as we speak — she reports seeing a blonde girl with a [...]
Sit in the front or the back of the train. The weenies are in the middle of the car, Twittering.
WMATA on Twitter from nine minutes ago:
"Red Line: Trains are turning back at Rhode Island Avenue & Silver Spring due to a situation outside of Fort Totten station. Shuttle bus ser"
Well, LL is assuming this is fake.
In any case, Twitter user "fentydc" is off to a strong start:
Storms ruining my planned evening work out. May have to limit it to running 12 miles 44 minutes ago from Power Twitter
And YES, I am driving myself home tonight about 1 hour ago from web
@FamousDC That guy is [...]
