HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY, TWITTER!
Its sort of like blogging and sort of like IM’ing, and sort of like that ancient medium, the telegraph.
Newsweek, April 9, 2007
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Myspace Tom gives a Twitter follower $580M worth of haterade
There is no other photo of Tom on the internet, right?
Tom isn’t really that guy’s friend.
Source: dailydot.com
So, Pope Benedict XVI is getting his very own Twitter account. It comes a year and a half after he tweeted for the first time. More:
A Vatican official told CNN the pope will be composing the tweets for the new account himself. For the first tweet from the account, the pope will also press the button to send the tweet himself, but after that others will send the tweets on his behalf.
In June 2011 the pope sent his first tweet from the Twitter account for the Vatican news site, @news_va_en, to launch the new site www.news.va. He wrote, “Dear friends, I just launched News.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI.”
His first tweet on the new account should be ”Just had an amazing mocha.” He’ll fit right in.
Irish woman reunited with her dog via Twitter
DUBLIN - When Patch hopped aboard the train to Dublin, the power of Twitter reunited the dog with his master.
Irish Rail sent a “Lost dog!” tweet with a photo attachment after the Jack Russell terrier arrived with Wednesday morning commuters on a train from neighbouring Kilcock, County Kildare. By all accounts, the friendly dog had spent his hourlong journey being petted vigorously.
After more than 500 retweets in just 32 minutes, the photo found Patch’s owner, Deirdre Anglin, who tweeted the state railway: “That’s my dog!”
Anglin and Irish Rail posted a series of photos documenting her reunion with Patch, their return train trip, and car journey home. She said fellow train travellers kept asking her: “Is that the dog from Twitter?”
Mike
