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Earlier today The Washington Times reported that President Obama quoted former President Rutherford B Hayes as saying something he never did. Inevitably a hilarious hashtag game mocking Obama’s knowledge of former presidents sprung up on Twitter shortly after. Here are the top 20 tweets from that hashtag game!

Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting. The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: 'Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?' After making their way through passport...

Election '12: You know a presidential campaign is going south when its detractors have more fun with its website than do its fans. That's the case with AttackWatch.com, the Obama site that's making him a parody. According to the logic of AttackWatch.com — cue "Jaws" music — there's a vast, right-wing conspiracy out there determined to lie about the president and vote him out of office. Drastic steps are needed, and the comically menacing black-and-red AttackWatch website is the answer. Calling on readers to "Get the facts. Fight the Smears," about President Obama's record, the site actually encourages all Americans...

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...

The Twitter feed of the company that put online 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails for msnbc.com was hacked over the weekend, with vandals posting a series of pro-Palin and anti-Obama messages. Among the tweets: * Emails: Gov. Palin a Hard-Working Public Servant * Email Witch-hunt Backfires * Weiner's America Or Palin's America - That Is The 2012 Choice "It appears that there is a 'hole' in one of the applications (we think Facebook) that links to Twitter," Art Crivella, founder and CEO of the company, Crivella West, told msnbc.com Sunday evening. "We've disabled them and mopped up the bile...

Sex, Tweets, and Rock Hard Pols (or Hard Times For Ant’ny Weiner – a “fictional” tale) This is the tale of a Pol who's gone wrong, It seems he tweeted a pict of his schlong. To a young girl, not his wife, sent the dong, Seedy to most even though it's not long,

Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall lost his endorsement deal from Champion sports apparel last week for tweeting his doubts that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by hijacked jetliners and for expressing his sentiments that we had "only heard one side" of the Osama Bin Laden story. Mendenhall quickly backed off from the pair of tweets. He deleted the 9/11 remark and published a blog post explaining that he wasn't a Bin Laden supporter. But it was too late. He had already joined the ranks of high-profile users who've been burned by microblogging. Keith Olbermann previously stepped...

So this week, they sent Kalpen Modi, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and itinerant movie star, to answer questions about health care -- on Twitter. If there was ever an issue that defied 140 characters or fewer, it's health care reform. But no matter -- to the Twitter feed! bham4ever asks, " thought Health reform was going to make Health Care more affordable, our company's is higher, now!" retrophyt wants to know, "If we had a public option for health insurance, would that make the cost of health care insurance go down? What is it...

Police work is not all about catching bad guys. Officers have to handle issues ranging from the mundane to the downright bizarre – as one force’s Twitter experiment has shown. In the first six hours of yesterday, Greater Manchester Police issued 500 tweets, including a call from a woman who asked for help to sue the Benefits Agency because she had no money. And call number 686 was a complaint that a man shouted ‘you’re gorgeous’ to woman. Elsewhere, a team of officers were dispatched to a bridge following a report that a man was ‘dangling’ a baby over the...

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:"