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    11/09/09

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    The Iranian "revolution"?

    Oh, y'mean that National Endowment For Democracy-backed astroturf campaign? The one where some British company shipped in thousands of little portable digital cameras so that we could see all those "viral" videos of what was happening in the streets?

    What color was that one, anyway? Green, or something? #iran
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    11/09/09

    @flugennock: The National Endowment for Democracy had very little, if not nothing at all, to do with the revolution in Iran. #iran
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    Though the charges have since been dropped, but if an American can be arrested for twittering a "revolution", then our government can't really condemn others for cracking down on those in the field.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/09/09

    @Magister: .... and from a certain angle, mountains and molehills are the same shape, and therefore can be directly compared... #iran
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    11/09/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Agreed, but when I first heard of the Madison fellow's arrest, I immediately thought of the shot to our credibility, if we were to condemn other governments for making similar arrests.

    It's sort of like when the Bush-era waterboarding story was confirmed. It wasn't even days until comparisons were made to WWII-era convictions for war crimes.

    Sure, the charges against Mr. Madison have been dropped, but if we want to be able to encourage social networking as a means to organize, then we can't be arresting people for doing the same thing. #iran
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    11/09/09

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    Interesting. But numbers alone arent the only issue. In terms of organizing, sometimes it is just as important to have the "influencers"-- ie, those people who can round up their friends/family/coworkers etc. -- in touch with each other. If twitter helped these "influencers" gain a sense of momentum and round people up, it served a far-reaching purpose.
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    11/09/09

    @calwilson37001: Right. I'm very confused about the point of this post. A small number of twittering activists helped "foment" the protests that were seen and heard around the world against a despotic regime that could use a lot more of that kind of internal pressure, and that's...bad? Because there aren't a lot of people online in Iran itself? #iran
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Shrek 4 Audio Booth Secrets Are the First Casualties of Hollywood's War on Twitter
    Does Mike Myers actually have a Twitter and is it too much to hope for him to show Lindsay Lohan what a web 2.0 manic meltdown really looks like before entering contractually-obligated radio silence #twitter
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    10/16/09

    In reply to Why Twitter Scares the Hell Out of Hollywood
    You know what doesn't scare the hell out of Hollywood? Convicted child rapists who happen to be film directors. #twitter
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    10/16/09

    @Aaron Altman: Touche. #twitter
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    10/16/09

    @Aaron Altman: I bet it's scaring the hell out of The Ghost's producers.
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    10/17/09

    @Aaron Altman: Only because that's usually a perk reserved only for producers. #twitter
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    10/12/09

    In reply to Media Critic Makes Well-Considered Point about the Brain-Melting Effects of Social Media
    I got all the way down to Aaron Hicklin and commenters being crazy. They should have chalk marks for this kind of thing.
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    10/09/09

    In reply to Cyrus Tweeted Out
    and according to rumour so did Courtney Love. She probably took one look at Tracy Morgan and said, "Eyethir he goez, R i go"
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Cyrus Tweeted Out
    I ALSO get all of my breaking news from the Baker City Herald of Baker County, Oregon.

    Commonality, extra comma-y! Belonskeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...!
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Cyrus Tweeted Out
    This is obviously the work of the black Svengali.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to G-20 Tweets Invite Judicial Hammer
    When I was in the Soviet Union in 1988, the only thing you could buy for rubles were tchotchkies from the party store for foreign visitors, so I bought an entire case of porcelain Lenin heads and took them to the rifle range when I got back. True story!
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    10/05/09

    In reply to G-20 Tweets Invite Judicial Hammer
    His crime again was what?
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    10/05/09

    In reply to G-20 Tweets Invite Judicial Hammer
    Oh God, a picture of Lenin? So old fashioned.


    Today's with-it techno-anarchist carries a picture of Cory Doctorow, preferably in a red cape.
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    Image of mexiback mexiback
    09/14/09

    In reply to Coastal Elites Can't Decide: Is Twitter a Force for Good or Evil?
    I miss fake Dina Lohan :(
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    09/11/09

    In reply to Twitter-Crazed Courtney Love Wants Dave Grohl "Ass-Raped" By Everett True
    It's depressing that not even death could protect this poor guy's likeness from crass exploitation. It's like Fred Astaire dancing with the vacuum cleaner times a million.
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    09/10/09

    In reply to Twitter-Crazed Courtney Love Wants Dave Grohl "Ass-Raped" By Everett True
    As a die-hard Nirvana fan, I'm glad to know that Krist and Dave are every bit as classy and respectful as I'd hoped and imagined they were. I just wish Courtney hadn't turned out to be as despicable and grotesque as I hoped and imagined she wouldn't be.
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