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    Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?

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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
    Well, as you all know, I'm a raging bitch. And as you may not know, the total number of tweets I've made seems to be going DOWN rather than up lately. I'd hate to be the intern assigned to "cleaning up the raincoaster stream". Augean stables, anyone? #twitter
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    10/29/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
    Let's test it out. All one needs to do is:

    1. Make a new Twitter account (or use an already-established one),

    2. make sure it's public -- so that its tweets will show up on search.twitter.com -- and then send out several tweets,

    3. make sure that the tweets have variety: normal, trivial ones; @replies to non-famous people; nice @replies to famous people; mean @replies to famous people (to both some of the same people that some of the nice @replies were sent to and new ones); etc.,

    4. conduct a ton of different searches on search.twitter.com and track the results: search immediately after sending tweets, a couple of hours after, a day after, etc. and then see which ones a) never showed up in the search, b) showed up but then disappeared, and c) showed up and stayed,

    5. see what the results tell you about the question you're trying to answer.

    I'd be happy to test it out if you'd like me to do so. Let me know. #twitter
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    10/29/09

    @mattchew03: um, what are you waiting for? why are you ASKING? #twitter
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    10/29/09

    @narnio: You have a point -- I'm on it.

    I think it'd be hilarious if I did it with either @dinalohan or @kiera_knightley. The problem, though, is that Dina technically doesn't really know how to @reply to people and Keira is too much of a snob to really bother. #twitter
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    10/29/09

    @narnio: I'll probably create a new one and not "reveal" the identity until I'm done testing it (who knows, Ev Williams could read Gawker), but I'm tempted to just use @helen_thomas. #twitter
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
    I'll wait for Eve Plumb's reaction before commenting further.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    10/29/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
    Well, but if Twitter drops the ball, who's going to protect me from Mickey Kaus then? Huh? The Hipster Grifter?

    Although on further reflection, I could probably get behind that plan.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    10/20/09

    In reply to Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter
    Man, being a resident of a Huxleyan hierarchical state seems way better than tooling around in one of them totalitarian jobbies. #iran
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    10/20/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: Less physically taxing, certainly. #iran
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter
    My distributor handles the book he co-edited with Malu Halasa, Transit Tehran. You guys might remember seeing Mr. Bahari as one of Jason Jones' interview subjects in a cafe in Tehran before the election. We are so glad to see him released and able to get out of the country. #iran
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
    Horrifying! You have a 646 exchange? #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
    I love the Taibbi "vampire squid" reference on her tweet. Even the rank and file of Goldman Sachs are using it. #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
    It's only fair, given that I've banned checking out Goldman's website. They really lost their edge when Choire left. #goldmansachs
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    10/19/09

    In reply to Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
    She deleted the Twitter account! #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    @mattchew03: it's been miley'd! #goldmansachs
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    10/19/09

    @moneyries: I wonder if she'll upload a rap video to YouTube in order to explain it. Or, given her love for Glee, perhaps an a cappella cover of a recent pop hit. #goldmansachs
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    10/19/09

    In reply to Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
    Also, the Twitter account definitely seems legit.

    Look at this tweet from @woolyknickers:

    [twitter.com]

    and then Erin's response:

    [twitter.com]

    --

    She also discusses Goldman in the following tweets:

    [twitter.com]

    [twitter.com]

    [twitter.com]
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    Edited by mattchew03 at 10/19/09 11:27 AM mattchew03 was starred mattchew03 was unstarred
    Image of belltolls belltolls
    10/19/09

    @mattchew03: If you believe this is not a disaffected temp paralegal or someone like that who has that Twitter account, I have a helium balloon I would like to sell you. #goldmansachs
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    10/19/09

    @belltolls: And your reasoning for that assumption? #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    @mattchew03: Look at the followers; and I have worked with corporate lawyers for twenty years and I never met one this dumb. The fondness for alcohol and dogs did give me paws though. #goldmansachs
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    10/19/09

    @belltolls: It looks like most of her followers are spam accounts, though. And if you look at her following list, it's mostly celebrities, with a few "real life" people in the mix, so it makes sense that her followers list would reflect that.

    Not disagreeing with you re: the dumb factor, just saying that this doesn't seem like a fake account. Maybe there's another Erin Holland that works at Goldman, who knows. #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    @mattchew03: That's what I mean. No real people. And also...it is now gone. #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    @mattchew03: I surfed about in the Google cache. I may be very wrong. The dumb factor is galactic and this may be one of those lawyers who is interested in a producing career in Hollywood and not in banking. I have met a few of those. Mea culpa. #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    @belltolls: Honestly, the reason I felt it was real is precisely what changed your mind. It seemed too dumb to be fake. Plus, who is going to randomly impersonate a lawyer for Goldman Sachs, and do it for months, anyway? Then again, after this post, who knows if she'll be there for long. #goldmansachs
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    Image of Chore Boy Chore Boy
    10/19/09

    In reply to Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
    Yeah it's that or Gawker just turned into a giant social network site, so they banned it like facebook and twitter. #goldmansachs
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    10/19/09

    @saythatscool:

    No, I'm sure Goldman Sachs is absolutely petrified that some blogger with an (as of yet unused!) hashtag is going to Bring Down The System. Between the foot-shooting Taibbi and Cook I'm fairly sure we're set for banker oligarchy.

    Hey dumbasses, what's a Level 3 asset? #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: Cook's gonna put the system on trial man.

    And then you're gonna see the fireworks dude. To-tal fu-cking An-arch-y. #goldmansachs
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    10/19/09

    In reply to Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
    First they came for IM, and I don't type fast enough to hold a coherent IM conversation so I said nothing. Then they came for J-Date, and since I already found my investment banker I said nothing. But damn you, corporate overlords, you will take Gawker over my unemployed body! #goldmansachs
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    10/19/09

    In reply to Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
    I understand that Gawker is also on the shit list run by the American Association of Reality Show Aspirants. #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
    damn, John, you know that it is very likely that she will probably lose her job as you call her out like this, right?
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    10/19/09

    @sewoch: The chance that this is actually a tweet from an Assistant General Counsel of Goldman is 1 in a million....not to worry. #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    @sewoch:

    I'm glad this woman's job will be cashiered in Mr. Cook's righteous Quest For Photographs Of That Douche Getting Bottle Service. Can you imagine the tips that will be a-pouring in now? He's a real fucking journalist, this guy. #goldmansachs
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    10/19/09

    @sewoch: I should have bought a Lotto ticket instead. #goldmansachs
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