Sore Eyes » twitter http://soreeyes.org Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:26:57 +0000 en hourly 1 She'd know. http://soreeyes.org/archive/2011/09/22/shed-know/ http://soreeyes.org/archive/2011/09/22/shed-know/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:14:42 +0000 John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2011/09/22/shed-know/ Best. @Reply. Ever?.

[Via @davepell]

]]> http://soreeyes.org/archive/2011/09/22/shed-know/feed/ 0 @MayorEmanuel http://soreeyes.org/archive/2011/02/24/mayoremanuel/ http://soreeyes.org/archive/2011/02/24/mayoremanuel/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:02:22 +0000 John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2011/02/24/mayoremanuel/ The fake @MayorEmanuel Twitter feed looks set to become a classic of the genre:

[It's the day before the mayoral election in Chicago. Infamously short-tempered former Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is preparing to make one last push in his bid to succeed Mayor Daley...]

Let's just keep the motherfucking coffee coming, non-fucking stop.

MayorEmanuel
February 21, 2011 at 14:31

When I run for reelection, I'm having a motherfucking hand-shaking robot built.

MayorEmanuel
February 21, 2011 at 15:01

Carl the Intern and Axelrod are directing the InterCorps from "the command center"–a laptop and a map in the backseat of the fucking Civic.

MayorEmanuel
February 21, 2011 at 16:02

Asked Carl how things were going, and he said "In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight." The fuck does that mean?

MayorEmanuel
February 21, 2011 at 16:05

Then, come election day, things went in a very unexpected (and hugely entertaining) direction. Read on…

]]> http://soreeyes.org/archive/2011/02/24/mayoremanuel/feed/ 0 Twittering http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/05/25/twittering/ http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/05/25/twittering/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 22:36:40 +0000 John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/05/25/twittering/ The twitterverse according to jwz.

]]> http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/05/25/twittering/feed/ 0 A firestorm in 140 characters http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/14/a-firestorm-in-140-characters/ http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/14/a-firestorm-in-140-characters/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:39:56 +0000 John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/14/a-firestorm-in-140-characters/ Meg Pickard's post about AmazonFAIL is far and away the sanest, most balanced account I've read of the whole sorry affair.

There's a great deal to be learned from this fiasco; not just for Amazon, but also by users1 of social media.

  1. Where 'users' means both those posting messages and those reading and reacting to them.
]]> http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/14/a-firestorm-in-140-characters/feed/ 0 The Grauniad, 140 characters at a time http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/01/the-grauniad-140-characters-at-a-time/ http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/01/the-grauniad-140-characters-at-a-time/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:27:05 +0000 John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2009/04/01/the-grauniad-140-characters-at-a-time/ Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink:

[Celebrated Guardian editor] CP Scott would have warmly endorsed this – his well-known observation 'Comment is free but facts are sacred' is only 36 characters long, a spokesman said in a tweet that was itself only 135 characters long.

Almost as good an April Fool as the notion that Alan Shearer is Newcastle United's new manager.1

[Via Qwghlm]

  1. What?!?
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