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Twitter to Campaign Outsider: No Blue Check For You!
No man with a good car needs to be justified. – Hazel Motes in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood So the other night the hardhoping staff tried to get our Twitter account verified. According to Twitter’s Help Center, an account must be “notable and … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC News, blue check, Flannery O'Connor, Hazel Motes, Help Center, Radio Boston, Twitter, WBUR, Wise Blood
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International House of Promos, er, Pancakes Gets Giffy
Well the hardtweeting staff was just scrolling along when this turned up in our Twitter feed. Is it just us, or is this a whole new level of adtrusiveness? Then again . . . #NATLPancakeDay.
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Tagged #NATLPancakeDay, adtrusiveness, IHOP, International House of Pancakes, National Pancake Day, Twitter
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Conflict of Interest at Politico Massachusetts Playbook (II)
Well the hardworking staff wandered into a bit of a quagmire yesterday when we looked at the confluence of a Massachusetts Playbook ad and some Massachusetts Playbook editorial content that both seemed to have the same objective: to boost the expansion … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Baker, Dan Currie, Dinah Washington, Erik Wemple, Great Schools Massachusetts, Katie Lannan, Lauren Dezenski, Massachusetts Playbook, Mike Allen, Politico, Politico Rain Man, Sneak ADtack, State House News Service, State of the Cuisinart Marketing, Twitter
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Conflict of Interest at Politico’s Massachusetts Playbook?
Well the hardworking staff was just sitting here in the Global Worldwide Headquarters minding our own business, when this popped up on the Twitters. Of course we immediately asked Dan Currie if he has any connection to the … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Round Two of the GOP Presidential Rumpus
In the interest of full disclosure, the dustupping staff should mention that we lost interest in last night’s CNN Republican Presidential Debate around the time Ben Carson spoke about hizzzzzz . . . Whatever. Regardless, here’s some dotsam and netsam … Continue reading
Ever Wonder Who the CIA Is Following on Twitter?
We know – you just hope it’s not you. And it’s not. The Central Intelligence Agency is using Twitter to gather intelligence from these 26 feeds: Interesting. Wouldn’t you think the spooks would be following, we dunno, Hamas Global PR maybe? … Continue reading
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Tagged Central Intellkigence Agency, CIA, DARPA, FBI, Hamas Global PR, The White House, Twitter, U.S. Army, Vladimir Putin
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On Second Thought, To Ello with Them
For several weeks now, the hardhoping staff has been yearning for a smile from Ello, the Mean Girl of Social Media. But . . . nothing. Then, this (via MediaPost): Interest in Ello Craters Well, that didn’t take long. The new … Continue reading
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Tagged Ello, Facebook, Mean Girl of Social Media, MediaPost, The Guardian, Twitter
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Sharkn-AD-o 2: SyFy Flexes in NYT
In the wake of the boffo debut of Sharknado 2 last week, SyFy ran this full-page ad in yesterday’s New York Times: Our favorite bit: Miley and Kimye, shark your hearts out.
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Tagged Kimye, Kimye wedding, Miley Cyrus, MTV, New York Times, People.com, Sharknado 2, SyFy, Twitter, VMAs
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