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The White House has been pushing its immigration reform desires around via Twitter this week, sending one doozy of a tweet that sparked hilarious responses. If the Obama administration had a sense of humor, one could think this was almost a setup designed to elicit reaction and interaction on Twitter. But, alas. This administration believes its own babble-speak, which makes the comments even funnier.

Shame on those who evade the constitution in frantic attempts to blame Bostons homegrown terror on something faraway&alien This enemy is us

We know we’re not famous actors who earn a living playing make-believe, but would it be OK if just for today we pretended all of this righteous outrage was inspired by the Kermit Gosnell trial?

PHILADELPHIA, April 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Tens of thousands of pro-life activists posted messages on Twitter on Friday with the hashtag #Gosnell to break through a pervasive media blackout that continues to envelope mainstream media outlets from the Washington Post and New York Times to the Big Three cable networks. Some 23.600 Twitter messages were sent using the abortionist's last name within one hour -- 11 a.m. Eastern. A screenshot shows, enough people have used the term on the online messenger service to make it the site's top trending term. The tweets have totalled more than 10,000 messages an hour...

Troubled by today's unemployment figures, the latest indicator of how badly America needs fundamental change from Bush-McCain policies

Here's the latest compilation of Tweets by the people who think they know what's best for everyone else...and aren't afraid to say so.

Teen Rape Case Shows Our Depravity, We have lost all moral compass, this because of Abortion, This is because of Homosexuality, This is because our justification have been so corrupted, The verdict was not harsh enough, They Tweeted pictures of the girl.

Labour MP David Lammy has apologised after accusing the BBC of being racist following its tweet which said "LIVE VIDEO: Chimney of Sistine Chapel as conclave votes for #Pope - will smoke be black or white?" Lammy replied saying: "This tweet from the BBC is crass and unnecessary. Do we really need silly innuendo about the race of the next Pope?" However, after receiving several messages alerting him to the fact that black smoke appears from a Vatican chimney when no decision has been made, and white smoke alerts the public to the election of a new Pope, the politician...

The Obama administration is postponing an award for an Egyptian activist who rallied worldwide attention against forced “virginity tests” on female protesters because of anti-American and anti-Semitic comments discovered on her Twitter account. The State Department announced earlier this week that Samira Ibrahim would be among 10 recipients of the International Women of Courage award presented by Secretary of State John Kerry and first lady Michelle Obama on Friday. But State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday the U.S. would hold off on awarding Ibrahim while officials investigate the tweets, which include support for attacks against U.S. diplomatic installations and...

Republican Sen. John McCain’s tweet comparing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a monkey is drawing criticism from a fellow GOP lawmaker (Justin Amash) as racist. On Monday, McCain wrote, “So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space—wasn’t he just there last week?” …

Vatican City, Dec 12, 2012 / 10:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI made his debut on Twitter today, sending out a greeting and a blessing as his first tweet to his “followers.� “Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart,� read his first tweet, sent around noon Rome time from the Paul VI Hall. He sent his tweet on a mobile tablet device at the end of his Dec. 12 general audience. His account, @pontifex, already has over 1.2 million followers,...

Hours before the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of recognizing the Palestinian Authority as a non-member observer state, the official U.N. Twitter account made an egregious typo, tweeting in favor of a one-state solution. "On Day of Solidarity with Palestinians, Ban Ki-moon stresses urgency of reaching 1-state solution," read the tweet. The message, which stayed online for more than 30 minutes, went out to the UN's over one-million Twitter followers before being promptly taken down and replaced with a corrected version, which read: "On Day of Solidarity w/ Palestinians, Ban Ki-moon stresses urgency of reaching 2-state solution (corrected...

Founder and chief executive of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, apologized for posting a message on Twitter slamming the "Jewish owned press" for its anti Israel coverage of the Gaza conflict. Murdoch reportedly received angry responses to his tweet, which asked: "Why Is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?" "Middle East ready to boil over any day. Israel position precarious. Meanwhile watch CNN and AP bias to point of embarrassment," Murdoch wrote in a second tweet in support of the Jewish state. Due to negative backlash, the media mogul tweeted an apology ...

One Nation For New Holocaust, God willing. check this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETt2FHdy8Kc&feature=player_embedded#at=55

President Obama and his re-election team marked the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks and events related to the killing of four Americans abroad that day with a slate of official and somber events. But they also took to Twitter for some campaign business on both days. "The election is in eight weeks. Sign up to volunteer," reads the first tweet, on Wednesday, the 11th anniversary of the deadly attacks, from @BarackObama.

The Muslim Brotherhood's official English-language Twitter account @Ikwanweb reposted a message from the group's deputy head, Khairat El-Shater, saying he was "relieved none of @USembassycairo staff was hurt" in three days of sometimes violent protests, and expressing his hope that US-Egypt relations could weather the events. This reconciliatory tweet, however, was posted while the Brotherhood's Arabic-language Twitter account and its official website were both praising the protests -- staged against a US-made film judged defamatory towards Islam -- and calling for a million man march on Friday. One Arabic language article on the Brotherhood's site sported the headline 'Egyptians rise...

Obama’s sole Tweet today: Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama The election is in 8 weeks. Sign up to volunteer: OFA.BO/s3tXFz 11 Sep 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite Mitt Romney: Mitt Romney ✔ @MittRomney On this most somber day, America is united under God in its quest for peace and freedom at home and across the world. 11 Sep 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite

Bev Perdue @GovBevPerdue I made it on MSNBC this morning y'all! pic.twitter.com/KHoWCwjT 3 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite Its Just Me @not_hwa MSNBC...did @chucktodd really quote @GovBevPerdue? A freaking parody account? OMG the stoopid is strong today. I'm going back to bed.

Doesn’t Jason Biggs know that Twitchy is forever? Earlier this week, we called attention to the American Idiot’s knock on Christians and his vile, sexually degrading tweets about Paul Ryan, Janna Ryan and Ann Romney. We also highlighted the mounting pressure on Nickelodeon to fire the actor from his “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” voice gig. Biggs dismissed his critics by tweeting, “You know I put my dick in a pie, right?” And completely misreading the First Amendment, his wife, Jenny Mollen tweeted, “How weird would it be if we all had freedom of speech? But today all of the disgusting...

Update 9/1: Biggs has deleted his tweet about sexually assaulting Janna Ryan, but other misogynistic tweets about her and Ann Romney remain. Nickelodeon is being pressured to fire actor Jason Biggs after he said he wanted to sexually assault Janna Ryan, the wife of vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. The American Pie actor made the comments on Twitter on Wednesday, earning criticism across the political spectrum and calls that he is unfit to provide the voice of Leonardo on Nickelodeon's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. The situation brings up questions of free speech and personal responsibility in the public...

Obama for America Tweets: If you or someone you know owns a small business, share how President Obama’s policies are helping it succeed

(CNN) -- While the nation wrestled with the aftermath of a shooting in Colorado that left 12 people dead, a Twitter account for the National Rifle Association had this to say: "Good morning, shooters. Happy Friday! Weekend plans?" That tweet was posted at 9:20 a.m. ET on Friday by an account for "American Rifleman," the official NRA journal. The group, which advocates for gun owners, appeared to have been pulled down from the Internet as of about 12:30 p.m. ET Friday. "A single individual, unaware of events in Colorado, tweeted a comment that is being completely taken out of context,"...

If you believe the French weekly Le Point, Thomas Hollande, the 27-year-old lawyer and son of President François Hollande and his former partner, Ségolène Royal, blasted his father’s current partner in an interview for “putting private life in the public domain” by backing a political opponent of his mother. If you believe Thomas Hollande, on the other hand, there was no such interview, just a conversation with a young woman who twisted his words. “I deny giving an interview to Le Point,” he told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday evening. “The comments reported, some of which are distorted or out of...

White Sox tweet support for Obama after Boston boosBy Justin Sink - 06/26/12 03:19 PM ET President Barack Obama may have earned some friendly jeers when he thanked Boston Red Sox fans for shipping their World Champion third baseman to his hometown Chicago White Sox, but his team apparently has his back. The White Sox published a tweet from their official Twitter account Tuesday signaling they were on the same page with the president. We agree with you @BarackObama. We thank @RedSox for Youkilis too. — Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) June 26, 2012 Kevin Youkilis, a popular player on Boston's...

Valérie Trierweiler, France’s new First Lady got her way when Ségolène Royal, François Hollande’s former partner of 30 years, crashed out of parliamentary elections to a dissident she controversially backed. Valérie Trierweiler sparked a political storm and private drama by firing off a Twitter message wishing “good luck” to the Socialist dissident rival of Ségolène Royal, 58, mother of Mr Hollande’s four children who was fighting for a seat in the constituency of western La Rochelle. Mr Hollande had backed Miss Royal for the seat reportedly without informing his new partner, who then is said to have sent the now...

China tells U.S. to stop tweeting Beijing's bad air BEIJING — China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing. Only the Chinese government is authorized to monitor and publish air quality information and data from other sources may not be standardized or rigorous, Wu Xiaoqing, a vice environmental minister, told reporters. China has long taken issue with the U.S. Embassy's postings of hourly readings of Beijing's air quality on a Twitter feed with more than...

Hazardous materials released at Institute for Genomic Biology. Escape area if safe to do so. Otherwise seek shelter.

Did Mohammed Merah murder Jewish children because little over week earlier, on March 12, UN worker Khulood Badawi posted a photo of a cloodied child on @KhuloodBadawi? Did it play a part in his thinking? (She has since taken it down, later writing: “Correction: I tweeted the photo believing it was from the last round of violence & it turned out to be from 2006.”)

Two months after successfully marshaling public support to extend a payroll tax cut for all Americans, President Obama today is attempting to do it again. At the White House this morning, Obama will showcase supporters who were among the thousands that spoke out online and over social media in December to pressure Congress to compromise. But the deal was only temporary. Taxes will rise on 160 million Americans at the end of the month unless lawmakers act again, and congressional negotiators remain at impasse. “Your voices changed the debate and reminded Washington what was at stake,” Obama says in a...

Kitty Twitty is a cat toy that lets your cat 'stay in touch' via automatic posts on Twitter. Thankfully, all the cat has to do is swat at a hovering Twitter bird on a guitar string above the gadget - the switch inside posts the news, updating a Twitter account. You'll need to be handy with a soldering iron to let your cat join the micro-blogging revolution, though - Kitty Twitty is a step-by-step DIY project on America's Make magazine. Its maker, Make's director of product development Marc de Vinck, says that the technique could also be used for 'connected'...

JEDDAH: Saudi tweeters have created a hashtag called IsmOmi (Arabic for “my mother’s name”) in an attempt to break a longstanding taboo that prevents Saudi men from mentioning the name of their mothers. The hashtag enables them to say their mother’s name and allows them to bypass a critical society. Hashtags are created by adding # to a “tweet” on Twitter. They are terms invented to add to tweets on a given subject and build a community of tweets or build toward a “trending topic.” Saudi tweeters see this as a way to express their love and gratitude for their...

Well, this is a bit of a first. I responded to a comment by the esteemed representative from Minnesota (pronounced Minn-i-so-cold) and lo and behold, Mr. Ellison responded. Sooo... I thought I would share his tweet with the 'FReeps. The Republican Jewish Coalition published the following... RJCHQ RJC National @ .@keithellison will you be introducing legislation to remove the existing law impediments to funding UN agencies that subvert peace process? 1 hour ago (So, naturally I piled on)....... Nachumlist Nachumlist @keithellison Leaving corrupt UN agencies tainted with hatred is very much in the interest of the United States So, Mr....

The release of Gilad Shalit has attracted worldwide attention, including Arab users of the Internet who share their thoughts on Twitter.

Here is a link to twitter for all of us non-tweeters AttackWatch Tweets

AP has called the race for Turner

One thing about Twitter is that it lends itself to quantitative analysis. Over a short time, it can convey a snapshot of how a thin but important slice of the public is reacting to events. It seems especially noteworthy that Barack Obama, who famously marshaled social media in support of his 2008 campaign, has now become something of a laughingstock on Twitter. The Hill does the math with respect to Obama’s recent bus trip through the Midwest: Obama’s Midwest tour last week prompted more criticism and ridicule than support on Twitter, according to this week’s Hill Hexagon. … An analysis...

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Embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York and his wife, Huma Abedin, are expecting a child, ABC News has learned. News of the pregnancy, which was first reported by the New York Times, comes as the couple has vowed to stay together despite Weiner’s admission of risqué online chats and photo swaps with at least six other women. "I love my wife very much, and we have no intention of splitting up over this," Weiner said Monday during a press conference.

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There is new evidence that Congressman Anthony Weiner may have sent the now-infamous 'crotch' photograph to a young coed via his Twitter account. The New York Democrat says his account was hacked, but The Daily has discovered that the crude post appears to have been made with the same software program as other messages Mr Weiner made the night of May 27. The Daily revealed that 'the shot seen round the world' was sent via TweetDeck, a popular Adobe desktop application that links up with social networking sites, including Twitter. The Queens and Brooklyn congressman is known to use TweetDeck,...

After the tumult of the First World War, noted Winston Churchill, only the intractability of the Irish Question had emerged unscathed: "Great Empires have been overturned. The whole map of Europe has been changed," he told the House of Commons. "But as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short, we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again." Article Tab : Lisa Benson / Washington Post Writers Group Lisa Benson / Washington Post Writers Group MORE PHOTOS » ADVERTISEMENT More from National Columnists Charles Krauthammer: Debt-ceiling sky not falling Bonnie Erbe: Are Christians giving up opposing...

Did Congressman Anthony Weiner really tweet his bulge to a college student? I believe you will enjoy this one. PAUL POTTS SINGS - Congressman Weiner

For background, check out this FR thread about Congressman Anthony Weiner. Did he really tweet an "inappropriate" photo to an adoring student in Seattle? MIDI FOUND HERE in Hits of the 70s Her name's Genette, student in Seattle I would move on from all the endless prattle I took a chance in Tweeting her my weiner Hoped she would be impressed by my demeanor Do you think I'm sexy...how about those undies Send a Tweet and let me know When I'm done on Rachel, I will set my cam up Then we can begin the show I do my job,...

0bama's long-form Birth Certificate has begun tweeting on Twitter. We're tweeting with it, back and forth, trying to determine whether it's lost in the woods, being held against its will, or just shy. Please visit Twitter, and "Follow" it.

I saw this mentioned at another site. You simply enter your twitter username, and it randomly generates your next tweet based on different messages you’ve sent out in the past. The more you used a word or phrase, the more likely it is to include it in the new tweet it generates.

Detroit needs RoboCop. That was the premise of a 1987 movie in which RoboCop, a terminally wounded cop turned cyborg, protected a crime-ridden city. Now what started out as a tweet to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has turned into a social media movement that suggests a statue of RoboCop is just what the city needs. Bing, as reported by PopSci.com , originally got a Tweet saying that RoboCop would be a great Detroit mascot. Philadelphia has a Rocky Balboa statue, the text stated, and RoboCop would "kick Rocky's butt." "There are not any plans to erect a statue to RoboCop,"...

I linked earlier to a YouTube video montage [video removed, see update below] of death wishes tweeted about Sarah Palin after various bloggers maliciously linked Palin's electoral target map to the Tucson shooting. Now YouTube is threatening to pull the video because one of the people who sent a tweet has complained that the video violates her privacy. According to the YouTube notice, which appears at Big Journalism (h/t Aaron Worthing at Patterico), the person whose tweet appears at 1:50 of the video is the person who complained.  Here is the screen shot at 1:50: I have no idea what YouTube will...

A Notre Dame student killed Wednesday in a tower collapse tapped out two chilling Twitter posts before his fatal 30-foot plunge. In the first post, Declan Sullivan, who was perched on a scissor lift to film a Fighting Irish football practice, made a dark joke predicting his horrific fate. "Gusts of wind up to 60 mph. Well today will be fun at work. I guess I’ve lived long enough," Sullivan wrote at 3:22 p.m., just as practice was getting started. More than 40-minutes later, the 20-year-old junior from Long Grove, Ill., was frozen with fear as wind-gusts approached 50 mph....

Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, First Lady Michelle Obama ventured into unfamiliar territory: the twitterverse. Prompted by CNN’s Ed Henry, Mrs. Obama sent her first tweet in the middle of the dinner from @edhenrycnn’s account. "from flotus: 'here at dinner this is officially my first Tweet. i am looking forward to some good laughs from the potus and jay,” read the message, referring to both her husband and comedian Jay Leno’s remarks which followed shortly after. After the dinner Henry blogged about not only coercing the First Lady, and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, but...

There is a creepy similarity between the US government tweets and the old Soviet slogans. Both are short messages from the leaders that are passed to the people to inform them of the official line and agenda. Let’s take a look and compare. Pres. Obama tweet: In just a few days, a century-long struggle will culminate in a historic vote. The time for health reform is now. Soviet slogan: Workers of public health and physical education! Improve the medical service to the people, more actively introduce physical education into the daily life of the people!.... State Dept tweet: New...