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Hokestraisameme bears more than a passing resemblance to absurdist viral classics like icanhazcheezburger.com and failblog.org. And that's no accident: all three, as it turns out, are the domain of Seattle-based meme guru Ben Huh, 31. One of his staffers sent him a link to Hoekstra's original tweet, Huh says, and as the responses started flowing in he immediately saw meme potential in Hoekstra's juxtaposition of the horrific and the banal. "You can't really explain why it's funny, but it is," he says. Huh has not yet heard from Hoekstra, but he expects the congressman...
Green, Mike • racist tweet - "JUST HEARD OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT'S WHITE AND IT WORKS" - is apologized...
...great speculation. It's quite possible that the government finds Twitter useful as a way of monitoring protesters, gathering data on them and even tracking them down. There are also signs that the Iranian government may be infiltrating the Twitter network itself, manipulating it to its own advantage. This tweet went out over the network earlier today, and was itself retweeted more than 200 times...
...Mousavi's supporters gather at Valisar Square, the BBC is reporting that foreign media have been banned from covering it in addition to other "unauthorised events." A tweet warns against attending the rally due to claims that armed police will be there in force...
While I can't write what I want to say about Twitter in only 140 characters (the maximum number you can use in a tweet), there is an admirable brevity to tweets that is increasingly rare in our culture. I would argue that Twitter is a uniquely democratic form of communication--that is, it's open to everyone, there is no central authority, and people vote on whom and what they like by signing up to be followers. It's about the wisdom--or folly--of crowds. It's also, as Johnson observes in his superb piece, a prototype...