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Sarah Palin called White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a liar on Twitter yesterday, saying his comments on ABC’s “This Week” make him shallow, narrow-minded, political and irresponsible. The former governor of Alaska is apparently outraged over Emanuel telling ABC’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that Republican Rep. Joe Barton’s apology last week to BP was not a slip of the tongue, but a reflection of the “philosophy” of the Republican Party. “That’s not a political gaffe, those are prepared remarks,” Emanuel said. “That is a philosophy.” Emanuel added: “They see the aggrieved party here as BP, not the fishermen...

Fellow FReeps who are Tweeps...Twitter is in tatters right now.

As the winter Olympics begin, the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that it will be monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats. Among the sites listed in a privacy impact statement filed Friday afternoon by DHS are the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, Twitter, Google and this web site, the Blotter.

# http://bit.ly/2VXfz Repubs & Demos have a reason 2 fear 2010. Tell yr friends & C U a week from Sat in The Villages, FL. FREE RALLY.about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck ** # http://bit.ly/2VXfz Kicking things off in SC nxt week & then a Free Rally in FL on Saturday. U'll get a glimpse of wht i'm planning!about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck ** # http://bit.ly/21FVts Interesting times we live in. Can't wait to see what this story is about.about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck ** # pat is filling in ths am. saying sum of wht I wnt...

"The Twitter Opera" will join 140-character Twitter messages into a libretto set to familiar opera tunes and new music by composer Helen Porter. The two singers, an experienced baritone and a soprano both in their mid 30s, will be announced next week. The Royal Opera House is inviting contributions to the plot on its #youropera Twitter page. Contributions are being published on the Royal Opera House blog. The story begins: "One morning, very early, a man and a woman were standing, arm-in-arm, in London’s Covent Garden. The man turned to the woman and he sang…" Act One, Scene One has...

http://twitter.com/AKGovSarahPalinThis is going to be fun! Since Friday, the number of her followers has increased by almost 30,000. Same goes for the Palin Ping! The rate of sign-ups has gone through the roof... we may soon reach 280 FReepers.

Got a pothole? Notice a broken streetlight? Someone graffiti your wall? Maybe you just want to know when the street cleaner's coming. Just Twitter dude! San Francisco residents can now access the city's 311 city services call center via Twitter, the mayor's office announced today. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that the city has hooked up the social networking site to its 311 call center. Now instead of dialing in to find out where to get your hot dog cart permit, you can simply "tweet." Twitter founder Biz Stone says the city by the bay is the first...

SNIPPET: "As for Twitter, the study is interesting both for its methodology and its findings, though the latter are not surprising:"