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...high-profile action also highlights the increasing dangers of identity misappropriation as Twitter and other social-networking sites become staple tools of political campaigning. Kerry McCarthy, an MP appointed by Labour as the party's "Twitter czar," has already intervened to stop two well-meaning Labour supporters from tweeting as other people in a misguided effort to boost the party (one posed as an MP, the other as an official Labour outlet). @lordmandelson, a fake version of Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, has also suspended activities. The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, who now tweets as @DMiliband, was beaten in the race...
...whole vampires-vs.-zombies debate - about which monster is more vital to the pop-culture zeitgeist - has lately escalated to nuclear proportions. Both sides have gotten shriller and more dogmatic, as if they were wrangling over a public option in health-care reform or whether it's O.K. to tweet during sex. As someone who's amped up the decibel level on the creature-features subject (see my review of Thirst), I now believe the warring parties need to find some small patch of common ground. So can we agree on just one thing? A vampire movie (or novel...
Ranneberger is indeed outspoken - he recently opened a Twitter account, USAMB4REFORM - to tweet his thoughts on Kenya. "Despite warnings by some, I will still speak out supporting reforms in Kenya," read one. "President Obama and the Kenyan people demand nothing less...
West, Kanye • boorishness of earns the sobriquet "jackass" from President Obama prior to a CNBC interview, news of which is tweeted by ABC's Terry Moran, after which said tweet is quickly apologized for and removed by ABC News because it was an "off-the-record" comment, after which video of the comment is posted by Politico's Ben Smith, after which said video is quickly removed by Politico because of something to do with being "respectful to a fellow news-gathering operation," but obviously there's no way such a thing can be kept hidden so here...
...Still, I feel compelled to tweet once a day, for my 700,000 imaginary readers. Because as a writer, all readers are imaginary anyway. Only with twitter, some of the fake ones have hot pictures...