{"id":191847,"date":"2009-06-17T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/17\/ive-need-help-to-grok-twitter\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:03:00","slug":"ive-need-help-to-grok-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/17\/ive-need-help-to-grok-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Need Help to Grok Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it appears to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/06\/twitter-users-heckle-hoekstra-en-masse.php\">remarkable tool for heckling people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m logged in, and I can search for stuff, but it appears that a lot of people who use it find a lot of utility that I simply miss.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: Pete Hoekstra (R-Clueless) got today&#8217;s talking point, which was that <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/petehoekstra\/status\/2208228550\">being a Republican in the current Congress was a lot like the Iranian protesters being beaten and shot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great googly moogly, it&#8217;s stupid, and there are <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=petehoekstra\">hundreds of parodies out there<\/a>, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/petehisameme.wordpress.com\/\">blog which has LOLZed some of the tweets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img268.imageshack.us\/img268\/2739\/12889745510397309374292.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img8.imageshack.us\/img8\/6978\/12889747100063003776919.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img10.imageshack.us\/img10\/3730\/12889747902411668377032.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img25.imageshack.us\/img25\/8388\/japaneseinternment77217.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it appears to be a remarkable tool for heckling people. I&#8217;m logged in, and I can search for stuff, but it appears that a lot of people who use it find a lot of utility that I simply miss. Case in point: Pete Hoekstra (R-Clueless) got today&#8217;s talking point, which was that being a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1100,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-funny","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}