Saturday Night Live took on Donald Trump’s Twitter account activities on Saturday and Alec Baldwin did a very skilful job as Russia’s President-elect, Donald Trump. The play was based on Trump’s apparent addictive use of Twitter, and before the show was over, Trump jumped on Twitter to tweet his disapproval.
“Just tried watching Saturday Night Live” Trump said, “- unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad”
President Obama laid out a simple truth today while doing his final campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Revealing that Donald Trump’s campaign advisers took away Trump’s twitter account over the weekend, the President asked;
“If your closest advisers don’t trust him to tweet, how can we trust him with the Nuclear codes?”
I haven’t heard it said so clearly before. Can you imagine?
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.@POTUS on @realDonaldTrump: “If your closest advisers don’t trust you to tweet, then how can we trust him with the nuclear codes?” pic.twitter.com/z7KQaKGZLP
— POLITICO (@politico) November 7, 2016
George Zimmerman is a scorned man. Not because he got away with murdering a teenage boy, or got away with all his other run-ins with the law. Zimmerman is scorned because his girlfriend slept with another man, or to put it the way Zimmerman did, his girlfriend “cheated on me with a dirty Muslim.”
And that’s not all Zimmerman said. He posted a half-naked picture of his girlfriend with her name and phone number on Twitter, encouraging people to call her because, “she’ll sleep with anyone,” the tweet said.
After posting the image of his girlfriend along with her phone number, essentially allowing her to be harassed by the sickos following Zimmerman, Twitter quickly took action against George Zimmerman and suspended his account for violating their terms of service.
Guess Zimmerman found out he is not totally invincible afterall!
When asked about the upcoming firings and layoffs, the denial was expected. But according to this report, company wide layoffs will happen next week.
Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO of Twitter on Monday, and a big reason he got the job was that as a co-founder, Dorsey isn’t afraid to make the tough, necessary decisions. He isn’t wasting much time.
Twitter is planning company-wide layoffs next week, according to multiple sources. It’s unclear how much of the staff will be culled, but insiders say it will likely affect most, if not all, departments.
The downsizing comes at the same time Twitter is restructuring its engineering organization to make it leaner and more efficient, these sources say. It’s likely that many of those impacted by the layoffs will be engineers, which make up about half the staff.
It’s not often that you come across someone who, through nothing more than his sense of humor in less than 180 characters, draws you into his world. I was lucky to see @whisper1111’s tweets a couple of years ago and we began following each other on Twitter and I must say I learnt from his political wisdom.
I was greatly sadden today when I received a tweet from @deniseromano – mutual twitter friend – stating that @Whisper1111, known to his friends and family as Michael Fogelsanger, had died. He was 63 years old.
According to his obituary, Michael died on July 14th, 2015. He was born in Philadelphia and was a teacher for 40 years working for the Philadelphia School District, the Upper Township School District, the Middle Township School District, Penn State University and Nittany Valley Charter School before retiring in June of 2014. And you would never know this from reading his tweets but according to his obituary, Michael created an at-risk program for students called “Team Infinity” with both the Philadelphia School District and the Middle Township School District.
@Whisper1111 – an amazing man with a life-long career of giving back to his community.
Rest In Peace Michael Fogelsanger.
Read his orbituary here.
Twitter Inc crashed on Tuesday for the second time in nine days when a software glitch stalled the popular messaging service for about one hour.
The company apologized to its 250 million users in a status blog, saying it had encountered “unexpected complications” during “a planned deploy in one of our core services.”
The outage began around 11 a.m. Pacific time and service had “fully recovered” by 11:47 a.m., the San Francisco-based company said. The stock rose as much as 3.7 percent before Twitter confirmed the glitch, but gave up most of the gains to end 0.25 percent higher.
The outage occurred just as Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took the stage in Austin, Texas, to speak at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, the annual gathering of tech enthusiasts that helped propel Twitter to national fame in 2007.
Inside the National Security Council, most officials aren’t allowed to use or even look at Twitter, the popular social-networking service.
But that didn’t stop some of President Obama’s top advisers from trying to identify the person responsible for @natsecwonk, an anonymous Twitter account that published a steady stream of personal and sometimes offensive attacks on White House and State Department officials.
Three weeks ago, the group hatched a plan to trick the suspected NSC staffer into revealing himself. They would intentionally plant inaccurate, but harmless, information with him to see if it would pop up as a 140-character tweet, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the effort.
It is not clear whether the sting led directly to the unmasking last week of Jofi Joseph, 40, who was identified as the creative force behind @natsecwonk and was fired from his position on the administration’s Iran negotiations team. But the lengths to which White House officials went to find Joseph reveal how much of an embarrassment his Twitter feed had become inside the West Wing and across the street at the stately Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where Joseph worked alongside his NSC colleagues while secretly skewering them online.
“It was like they were hunting for bin Laden in a cave and he was right in the belly of the beast all along ,” said a former NSC official who worked with Joseph, marveling that he was able to keep his identity secret for over two years.
“We talked about it from time to time in the hallways, ‘Did you see what @natsecwonk posted?’ ” said this former official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal operations. “He probably heard people walking around saying things about the account.”
Joseph said in a statement Wednesday that “I deeply regret violating the trust and confidence placed in me.”
“What started out as an intended parody account of DC culture developed over time into a series of inappropriate and mean-spirited comments,” the statement continued. “I bear complete responsibility for this affair and I sincerely apologize to everyone I insulted.”
White House press secretary Jay Carney confirmed Wednesday that Joseph no longer worked for the administration, but he declined to discuss specifics.
After 16 years I the NBA, Tracy McGrady says goodbye.
While many outlets went crazy today trying to decipher what the “TBD” on Hillary Clinton’s new twitter account means, we will let the profile speak for itself.
SIDENOTE: “TBD”… it’s simple. Future President of the United States. Why are they still trying to figure this out? It’s as clear as day!
The day after Kobe Bryant went down with his torn Achilles Tendon, Nike launched an ad titled “You Showed Us” in a local LA newspaper
“You Showed Us That An 18-Year-Old Could Play With The Best.
You Showed Us That A ChampionShip, An Exhibition Game And A Charity Event Are All Must-Wins.
You Showed Us How To Play Chess While Others Played Checkers.
You Showed Us How To Hit Game-Winner After Game-Winner.
You Showed Us That An 81-Point Game Is A Real Thing.
You Showed Us That Gold Still Matters.
You Showed Us How To Take An Ice Bath.
You Showed Us How To Score 30 Points In a Quarter, Twice.
You Showed Us The Mamba Face.
You Showed Us How To Demand Perfection And Demand It From Everyone.
You Showed Us How To Put Big-Boy Pants On.
You Showed Us That You Were Never Out Of It. Ever.
You Showed Us How Inspirational A Pair Of Free Throws Could Be.
Now, Show Us Again.”
The ad surprised Bryant, he responded to Nike on his Twitter by saying:
“Thank you @nike for this surprise spread in the paper this am. It touched me beyond words. #showuIwill instagram.com/p/YX3oQxxNr8/
— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) April 21, 2013“
The ad can also be seen here as a video. Overall, it’s a timely and well thought our tribute to a great superstar in basketball. Get well Kobe.
Remember during the Presidential campaign when we found out that Mitt Romney had thousands of fake Twitter followers? Now it seems the fake following is becoming a huge money-making industry in itself. Politicians, celebrities and average joes are all shelling out the cash to magically gain thousands, even millions of followers… fake followers that is.
Although a big following may look good on your profile, the big losers here are the real lovers of Twitter who use the social media to genuinely communicate with those they consider ‘friends.’ Twitter itself is also a loser, as their credibility now comes into question.
If you were hoping and praying that Ashley Judd would run for Senate, well I’m sorry to disappoint you. After much fanfare about a possible Senate run to dethrone Republican Mitch McConnell, Judd took to Twitter and informed the world that she would not run. Instead, the popular Democratic actress said that she would use this time to concentrate on her family.
thanks @TonyLBlackwell
