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100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
@Homophobes, a Twitter account that retweets homophobes to expose their ignorance, published a collection of 100 horrifying tweets where people said that they would murder their child if he or she was gay. These tweets were all posted within 24 hours.
From the Storify post:
On March 12, 2012, the hashtag #ToMyUnbornChild became a trending topic. People used this hashtag to “tweet to” their future child. Here are 100 real tweets from real people — all within 24 hours — saying they would murder their child if he or she was gay.
I wonder how many of these people would call themselves “pro-life”
(Source: elleove)
convincingindie: :: giant eyeroll ::Buzzfeed lists this as a “brilliant” campaign. Let me tell you why it is a stupid campaign:
1) It essentializes libraries as simply places that house books. It undermines the myriad other services they provide and the civic/community functions they serve.
2) It is intellectually-elitist-at-best and luddite-at-worst in the most blatantly obnoxious way, in that it assumes that because people are online they aren’t reading. (See these things you are looking at? They are also words.)
3) On what universe does someone think they are going to win over or attract Internet users by positioning oneself as the anti-Internet? As if you could attract more fans to a sports team by being actively hostile towards every other team in the league. You’re not going shame someone into being on your side.
Ernest Hemingway would have been an excellent Tweeter: “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”
This campaign is so totally smug and holier-than-thou. (I have to admit I smiled at “putyourfaceinabook” though.)
I can’t believe I’m actually touched by a tweet from Voldemort.
![idkcatstuff:
[image: screenshot of a tweet from @mountain_goats: “Cats currently drafting a charter which asserts a “fundamental right” to any cereal milk you don’t finish”]
heehee. reblogged for Kate.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkcg23EokD1qhx4a7o1_1280.png)
[image: screenshot of a tweet from @mountain_goats: “Cats currently drafting a charter which asserts a “fundamental right” to any cereal milk you don’t finish”]
heehee. reblogged for Kate.
Regional dialects are alive and well on Twitter
Postings on Twitter reflect some well-known regionalisms, such as Southerners’ “y’all,” and Pittsburghers’ “yinz,” and the usual regional divides in references to soda, pop and Coke. But Jacob Eisenstein, a post-doctoral fellow in CMU’s Machine Learning Department, said the automated method he and his colleagues have developed for analyzing Twitter word use shows that regional dialects appear to be evolving within social media. In northern California, something that’s cool is “koo” in tweets, while in southern California, it’s “coo.” In many cities, something is “sumthin,” but tweets in New York City favor “suttin.” While many of us might complain in tweets of being “very” tired, people in northern California tend to be “hella” tired, New Yorkers “deadass” tired.
This is neat.
From the article: The statistical model the CMU team used to recognize regional variation in word use and topics could predict the location of a microblogger in the continental United States with a median error of about 300 miles.
OK, where’s the app for this? Being a Wisconsinite with Texan parents, I’m really curious as to where I’d be placed.
(Source: abbyjean)
The best part is the green checkmark means it’s a verified definition.
some friends of mine made this and it’s pretty damn funny.here’s how it works:
@reply to someone who posted a boring tweet
Copy and paste their tweet, and add #recyclethis.
Click reply.
Within minutes you and the culprit will receive a beautiful new tweet recycled from the characters of that lame tweet!
You had me at “kitten.”
I have an account that I follow on my personal blackberry but I don’t actually twitter myself. It’s more to keep track of what Diddy and Perez Hilton are up to all day.
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White House Deputy Press Secretary, Bill Burton
Twitter Not Blocked In White House, As It Turns Out - Mediaite
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aciolino @petehoekstra Today I poked my finger on a hanger. Now I know what all those aborted babies go through.
