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Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 11:37am on Sunday, November 8th, 2009

On Election Night, Twitter Defeats Cable

Politico reported on November 4, 2009:

Political junkie Mike Murphy couldn’t get his fix while flipping through the cable networks Tuesday night.

“With a few exceptions,” Murphy said, “like [James] Carville on CNN or [Karl] Rove on Fox, I didn’t see people who know anything about elections.”

But the Republican political consultant found another outlet to scratch the itch: Twitter. The social networking platform, Murphy said, "was a better place to watch the election." And after a while, he decided to participate with non-stop Tweets of his own."

The full story:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29129.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:27pm on Saturday, October 10th, 2009

October 10, 2009: Entertainment Weekly noted that Miley Cyrus has quit Twitter:

"Earlier this week, Miley Cyrus tweeted her last tweet (supposedly at the behest of her Last Song co-star and rumored boyfriend Liam Hemsworth), but even so, she certainly hasn’t stopped her personalized dispatches to fans. The latest is a YouTube video where Cyrus lays out exactly why she quit Twitter: “I had to say goodbye,” Miley intones, “and this little rap is to tell my fans why.”

Supposedly, the reason is because she wants to keep her personal things personal."

The full story:
http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/10/10/miley-cyrus-twitter-youtube/

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:32pm on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Financial professionals place great value on the opinions of a teenager, and 15 year-olds find the world a confusing place where no one understands them, the Times of London reported on July 14, 2009:

"Just over a fortnight ago, Matthew Robson had never worked in banking. This was mainly because he was 15 years and 7 months old and attending a comprehensive school in South London.

Today he is the talk of Tokyo, Wall Street and the City. Fund managers, CEOs and analysts are poring over his report, How Teenagers Consume Media, which he wrote last week while on work experience at Morgan Stanley.

In it he laid out the world according to the teenager: a confusing place where the PC is a radio, the games console is a telephone, the mobile telephone is a stereo and text-message machine, the DVDs are pirate copies and no one uses Twitter.

Sitting at home in Greenwich yesterday, he explained that he was only relaying the daily conversations of the 200 teenagers in his year and thousands of others across the country, translated into language that bankers would understand.

“Most teens would say the same things,” he said. “We talk about this kind of thing at school quite a lot. Though the way we talk about it you probably wouldn’t understand it.”

The full story:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6703399.ece

Eric Kallgren    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 11:38am on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

The reliably behind-the-times Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post finds that Twitter is all about his followers, his celebrity friends and himself. His story "News Finds Fresh Niche On Twitter" from the June 15, 2009 edition of the Washington Post:

"I became friendly with Mariel Hemingway when the actress began following me on Twitter. When I began checking out her page, I was struck by how often she shared the details of her life, from her hiking to her bedtime. Without any handlers or publicists, we agreed to meet for a CNN interview when I was in Los Angeles.

"I'm a very private person," Hemingway told me. "But I find it wonderfully comforting to know that there's just people out there to connect with that -- yes, they don't know me, but . . . I think you feel a closeness with people, and it's a great way to kind of get what your message is out there." In her case, that includes promoting her new cookbook."

The full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/14/AR2009061402491.html