The Pope has a new plan to get people engaged in the church: In its latest attempt to keep up with the times the Vatican has married one of its oldest traditions to the world of social media by offering “indulgences” to followers of Pope Francis’ tweets. The church’s granted indulgences reduce the time Catholics […]
Twitchy, the right wing site created by Michelle Malkin to “debunk” tweets, has an interesting story up accusing MSNBC of using spambot accounts on Twitter to promote their shows. You can view the post here. Now Twitchy is saying they have investigated these accounts and this is their finding: Twitchy looked at about a dozen […]
Andrew Breitbart passed away last night at the age of 43. With the news the right has instantly started talking about the rabid comments from the left on Twitter. Of course most of the names they are pulling out are names we never even heard of. But does the right even know who Andrew Breitbart […]
Welcome to today’s outrage: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document. A “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November says that since at least June […]
In what can only be described as one of the most egregious violations of the First Amendment, a high school senior in Kansas was disciplined for making a disparaging tweet about former Senator and now Governor, Sam Brownback: Emma Sullivan, a senior at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, was in Topeka on […]
Harry Reid might be finally growing a pair. He did something very sneaky tonight: The handful of Republican members who had planned on skipping President Obama’s jobs address to a joint session Thursday night might have to think again. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has scheduled a vote for Thursday to proceed on a […]
Over the weekend someone hacked a Fox News twitter feed and made some malicious posts: A series of alarming Twitter posts about President Obama appeared on Fox News’s Twitter account for political news early Monday morning, and the Web site for the cable television network said it was a victim of hacking. The Twitter account, […]
The right refuses to buy the fact that Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account may have been hacked in order to send out a lewd photo. As matter of fact the entire incident revealed a huge vulnerability in yFrog, the photosharing service the image appeared on, and the right still refuses to accept it. Their reason for […]
Drudge is pushing a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, also being published by PBS: The Drudge Report outranks social media when it comes to driving news traffic to top Web sites, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. In a comprehensive […]