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New York Times doesn’t recognize ‘Tweet’

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Phil Corbett, the latest standards editor at the Times (maybe the greatest job in the world?), has issued a proclamation! Yesterday, the following memo went out, asking writers to abstain from the invented past-tense and other weird iterations of the magical noun-verb “Twitter.” His case isn’t terrible, actually—and he offers this terrifying vision: “Someday, ‘tweet’ may be as common as ‘e-mail.’” Oh dear. Well, read for yourself and decide. How About “Chirp”? Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological…

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New York Times doesn’t recognize ‘Tweet’

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Phil Corbett, the latest standards editor at the Times (maybe the greatest job in the world?), has issued a proclamation! Yesterday, the following memo went out, asking writers to abstain from the invented past-tense and other weird iterations of the magical noun-verb “Twitter.” His case isn’t terrible, actually—and he offers this terrifying vision: “Someday, ‘tweet’ may be as common as ‘e-mail.’” Oh dear. Well, read for yourself and decide. How About “Chirp”? Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological…

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ABC’s Jake Tapper tries to lure Sarah Palin into Sunday-show rotation via Twitter

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Stopping by the Sunday-morning chat shows once seemed like a prerequisite for any politician seeking national office. But Sarah Palin broke that tradition during the 2008 campaign by skipping all the Sunday shows — a marked contrast to her running mate John McCain, who’s long been a permanent fixture on the political chat circuit. Palin has certainly kept her name out there since 2008, however, with high-profile speaking gigs, regularly posting endorsements and policy positions on Facebook and Twitter, and writing a best-selling book.…

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ABC’s Jake Tapper tries to lure Sarah Palin into Sunday-show rotation via Twitter

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Stopping by the Sunday-morning chat shows once seemed like a prerequisite for any politician seeking national office. But Sarah Palin broke that tradition during the 2008 campaign by skipping all the Sunday shows — a marked contrast to her running mate John McCain, who’s long been a permanent fixture on the political chat circuit. Palin has certainly kept her name out there since 2008, however, with high-profile speaking gigs, regularly posting endorsements and policy positions on Facebook and Twitter, and writing a best-selling book.…

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Senate candidate Nina Hayden DID NOT qualify for the ballot via petition

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With not enough money in her campaign account to cover the check she will have to write to the state in order to run for the state Senate, long-shot Democratic candidate Nina Hayden once told me via Twitter that she wasn’t spending a lot of time fundraising because she was focused on gathering the requisite number of signatures to qualify for the ballot via petition. Looks like Hayden wasn’t focused enough. According to the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections, Hayden came…

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Pennsylvania AG subpoenas Twitter for critics’ names

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State Attorney General Tom Corbett wants to know who’s saying bad things about him in fewer than 140 characters: [Corbett] subpoenaed Twitter, asking that it hand over the “name, address, contact information, creation date, creation Internet Protocol address and any and all log in Internet Protocol address” associated with two Twitter accounts, @bfbarbie and@casablancaPA, which have only 68 and 123 followers, respectively [as of Wednesday night, 124 and 206]. Both accounts have posted Tweets critical of the gubernatorial candidate. Are they enough to…

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Pennsylvania AG subpoenas Twitter for critics’ names

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State Attorney General Tom Corbett wants to know who’s saying bad things about him in fewer than 140 characters: [Corbett] subpoenaed Twitter, asking that it hand over the “name, address, contact information, creation date, creation Internet Protocol address and any and all log in Internet Protocol address” associated with two Twitter accounts, @bfbarbie and@casablancaPA, which have only 68 and 123 followers, respectively [as of Wednesday night, 124 and 206]. Both accounts have posted Tweets critical of the gubernatorial candidate. Are they enough to…

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