Salon.com > Twitter http://www.salon.com Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:38:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Best of the worst: Right-wing tweets on the Texas abortion battle http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/best_of_the_worst_right_wing_tweets_on_the_texas_abortion_battle/ http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/best_of_the_worst_right_wing_tweets_on_the_texas_abortion_battle/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13347771 The Texas Legislature began a short special session today that conservatives hope will make the state a much harder place to obtain an abortion. As activists stormed the state Capitol, pundits waged the abortion wars on Twitter. Here at Salon, we've published a few of these "best of the worst" roundups but they're not usually this angry:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/best_of_the_worst_right_wing_tweets_on_the_texas_abortion_battle/feed/ 87 Erick Erickson, Internet comedian, jokes about reproductive rights http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/erick_erickson_internet_comedian_jokes_about_reproductive_rights/ http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/erick_erickson_internet_comedian_jokes_about_reproductive_rights/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:43:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13347727 I know it's hard to believe, what with all of his talk about female breadwinners being "anti-science" and his fixation on the "panties" of "emo lefties,"  but Erick Erickson is not a professional Internet comedian. He is a conservative pundit who gets paid money to share his ideas (about emo panties) on television and radio.

On Monday, Erickson posted a photo from the reproductive rights rally happening outside the Texas Capitol in advance of the legislature's special session, and asked if what he was seeing was "Salon's editorial board."

While we're flattered by the comparison, many of Erickson's Twitter followers were quick to point out his mistake.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/erick_erickson_internet_comedian_jokes_about_reproductive_rights/feed/ 19 Why is Twitter so awful on Sundays? http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/why_is_twitter_so_awful_on_sundays/ http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/why_is_twitter_so_awful_on_sundays/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:20:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13346886 Blocking someone on Twitter, ensuring you’ll never see their tweets, is the nuclear option -- better reserved for trollish, harassing enemies online who won’t stop making fun of your avatar than for amiable-seeming supporting players on a TV sitcom. And yet recently I found myself blocking Retta, who exhorts her co-workers to “Treat yo’self!” on “Parks and Recreation” and whose observations on TV as it happens (or, sometimes, as she's catching up later) garner retweets from many people I follow.

It wasn’t her -- it was me. I’d grown tired of a new manner of speaking on Twitter of which Retta was merely a popular example. Particularly when talking about an episode of Sunday television, it seemed, everyone I followed on Twitter spoke in a language that I just couldn’t get into; a patois of oblique references (so as to prevent spoilers) and gleeful, headlong description of whatever was happening in front of them. If you weren’t watching live, as I generally was not, you were missing all the fun, not merely because you didn’t get the reference, but because the reference was the entire substance of a sort of half-joke.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/why_is_twitter_so_awful_on_sundays/feed/ 13 Alec Baldwin addresses homophobic tweets http://www.salon.com/2013/06/29/alec_baldwin_apologizes_for_homophobic_tweets/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/29/alec_baldwin_apologizes_for_homophobic_tweets/#comments Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13346200 "30 Rock" actor Alec Baldwin has apologized for a series of graphic, homophobic tweets directed at Daily Mail writer George Stark, who erroneously reported that Baldwin's wife had been tweeting during the funeral of "Sopranos" actor James Gandolfini. In a letter posted on GLAAD's Web site, Baldwin attempts to clarify that his rant had "nothing to do with issues of anyone's sexual orientation":

My ill-advised attack on George Stark of the Daily Mail had absolutely nothing to do with issues of anyone's sexual orientation. My anger was directed at Mr. Stark for blatantly lying and disseminating libelous information about my wife and her conduct at our friend's funeral service. As someone who fights against homophobia, I apologize.

I have worked, periodically, with numerous marriage equality organizations, especially over the past couple of years, to achieve the very rights that gay couples are earning by recent court decisions. I would not advocate violence against someone for being gay and I hope that my friends at GLAAD and the gay community understand that my attack on Mr. Stark in no way was the result of homophobia.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/29/alec_baldwin_apologizes_for_homophobic_tweets/feed/ 10 Daily Mail apologizes to Alec Baldwin for bogus Twitter story http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/alec_baldwin_deletes_twitter_account_after_meltdown/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/alec_baldwin_deletes_twitter_account_after_meltdown/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:50:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13339792 It turns out that the Daily Mail story that sent Alec Baldwin into a blind rage on Twitter was based on inaccurate information.

Daily Mail writer George Stark first reported that Baldwin's wife, Hilaria, had been rudely tweeting during the funeral of actor James Gandolfini, noting that the Twitter timestamps coincided with the time of the late "Sopranos" actor's funeral.

The allegation launched the hot-tempered Baldwin, who has also thrown tantrums on airplanes, into an offensive homophobic rant on Twitter before he deleted it.

But thanks to a technical glitch on Twitter that reflected GMT instead of ET, it turns out that Baldwin was correct. An analysis of the source code of Hilaria Baldwin's tweets reveals that she tweeted between 11 am and 2 pm, as opposed to 8 am to 11 am:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/alec_baldwin_deletes_twitter_account_after_meltdown/feed/ 24 What Alec Baldwin has in common with the president of Chick-fil-A http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/what_alec_baldwin_has_in_common_with_the_president_of_chick_fil_a/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/what_alec_baldwin_has_in_common_with_the_president_of_chick_fil_a/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:37:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13339937 Evolutionary theory suggests that it was when we developed thumbs that we put our species on the path to becoming sentient humans. And then Twitter made us go and reconsider that call. This week's prime examples of how having the ability to hit a button is no proof of being a fully developed creature: Alec Baldwin and Chick-fil-A.

Popular poultry purveyor Chick-fil-A has a long and well documented history of support for "traditional," man-lady marriage. But after Wednesday's Supreme Court rulings, the company's president, Dan Cathy, couldn't resist sharing his observation, via Twitter, that it was a "Sad day for our nation, founding fathers would be ashamed of our generation to abandon wisdom of the ages re: cornerstone of strong societies." Yes, I am totally sure that self-described cougar chaser Ben Franklin, along with Thomas Jefferson, a man who likely fathered six children with his slave, would be appalled. Cathy quickly deleted the tweet, and issued a corporate statement that he "realized his views didn't necessarily represent the views of all customers, restaurant owners and employees and didn't want to distract them from providing a great restaurant experience." In other words, oops, he forgot that thoughts go on the inside, and that conflating "shame" and civil rights can be bad for business.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/what_alec_baldwin_has_in_common_with_the_president_of_chick_fil_a/feed/ 83 Alec Baldwin’s homophobic Twitter rant http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/alec_baldwins_homophobic_twitter_rant/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/alec_baldwins_homophobic_twitter_rant/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2013 03:17:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13339501 Alec Baldwin is on the warpath again.

The "30 Rock" actor, known for taking on American Airlines and an "uptight queen" working at Starbucks, posted a series of homophobic tweets tonight about a writer for the U.K.'s Daily Mail newspaper. That writer had noted that tweets went out from Baldwin's wife's Twitter account during the actor James Gandolfini's funeral service, at which both Baldwin and his wife had been in attendance. Though the Daily Mail article noted that the tweets may well have been posted by an assistant or after Baldwin's wife, Hilaria Baldwin, left the service early, it didn't stop Baldwin from calling the reporter "little bitch" and "toxic little queen" and stating that the reporter would enjoy Baldwin forcibly sodomizing him.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/alec_baldwins_homophobic_twitter_rant/feed/ 73 SCOTUSblog trolls the Internet trolls http://www.salon.com/2013/06/27/scotus_blog_trolls_the_internet_trolls/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/27/scotus_blog_trolls_the_internet_trolls/#comments Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:51:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13338776 Some conservatives are misplacing their anger at the Supreme Court's ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied benefits to legally married same-sex couples, is unconstitutional.

The Twitter account for SCOTUSblog, a site run by a group of law professors and lawyers and sponsored by Bloomberg Law, has been taking some of the heat and having fun with it:

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The Supreme Court doesn't have an official presence on Twitter, but perhaps those angry at SCOTUS can commiserate with parody Antonin Scalia.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/27/scotus_blog_trolls_the_internet_trolls/feed/ 0 When Twitter does what journalism can’t http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/when_twitter_does_what_journalism_cant/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/when_twitter_does_what_journalism_cant/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:30:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13337910 On Tuesday, June 25, Sen. Wendy Davis of Texas stood for nearly 13 hours without food or drink, without rest, without leaning, without the ability to use the restroom, to filibuster Senate Bill 5 (SB 5), a legislative measure that would have closed 37 of the 42 abortion clinics in Texas, the largest state in the contiguous United States. Interested people from around the country, nay, the world, were able to watch this filibuster and the political maneuverings of those who tried to stop it, via a livestream on YouTube — one watched, at times by more than 180,000 people.

The filibuster was a gripping spectacle that kept me rapt for hours. On Twitter, people were able to offer support, however symbolic, for Sen. Davis’ efforts. There was a sense of community. For some levity, I couldn’t help remarking on Sen. Davis’ flawless hair, several hours into her ferocious stand.

Near midnight, after some intense and partisan efforts to derail Sen. Davis’ efforts, the impassioned crowd in the gallery began shouting and cheering, letting the senator know she did not stand alone. It was a sound of women fighting for their reproductive freedom in the only way they could: with their voices. I will never forget that sound. It awoke something in me I hadn’t realized had gone dormant.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/when_twitter_does_what_journalism_cant/feed/ 25 “Waiting to Exhale” author Terry McMillan deletes offensive tweets about Mexicans http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/waiting_to_exhale_author_terry_mcmillan_deletes_offensive_tweets_about_mexicans/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/waiting_to_exhale_author_terry_mcmillan_deletes_offensive_tweets_about_mexicans/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:13:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13338314 "Waiting to Exhale" author Terry McMillan today wrote a series of offensive posts that riled up her followers, saying: "Imagine the United States without any Mexicans. We'd probably starve, have dirty houses and no gardens. Lots of educated Latinos too."

McMillan then followed it up with these tweets, captured via Topsy:

She attempted to backpedal by saying she was quoting "a Mexican friend," but as people on Twitter point out, that just made it worse:

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The writer begrudgingly apologized and insisted that her words were "taken out of context," and has since deleted all of the tweets:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/waiting_to_exhale_author_terry_mcmillan_deletes_offensive_tweets_about_mexicans/feed/ 56 Social media’s wildest 24 hours http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/social_medias_wildest_24_hours/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/social_medias_wildest_24_hours/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:27:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13338043 For 24 hours, the world of social media rocked like a roller coaster off its tracks. The outbursts of rage over the Supreme Court's decision to annul a key section of the Voting Rights Act Tuesday morning had barely subsided before environmentalists began obsessively tweeting every nuance of President Obama's climate change speech a few hours later. As afternoon became evening, Wendy Davis' filibuster in the Texas Legislature became a legend-in-the-making, complete with a stunning chaotic denouement watched in real time streaming video by hundreds of thousands. The following morning, a rolling tide of ecstasy and joy swept across the Internet within seconds of the news that the Supreme Court had ruled the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.

Of course, I should be clear: This was my world of social media. We are filtered by whom we follow and friend. If I associated with a different motley crew, the cries of joy and rage could easily flip places. Social conservatives believe that what happened in Texas Wednesday night was a travesty of democracy and that Jesus is weeping in dismay over the prospect of a flood of gay marriage in California. And they're on Twitter too.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/social_medias_wildest_24_hours/feed/ 2 The endless slut-shaming of Weiner’s women http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/the_endless_slut_shaming_of_weiners_women/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/the_endless_slut_shaming_of_weiners_women/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:02:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13336294 The guardians of morality have a lengthy and remarkably selective memory. And what has long been excused in a man can be an enduring badge of shame for a woman. It's been two years since Anthony Weiner's penis went viral and his career took an abrupt detour in light of revelations regarding his explicit online communications with at least six women. His resignation from Congress prompted a gold mine of tabloid headlines and a deluge of moral outrage from the punditsphere, all of which briefly kicked up again when he last month announced his intention to run for mayor of New York City. Yet despite the jokey New York Post headlines and the muttering accusations of sleaziness that he will always bear, Weiner is doing pretty well today. He still has his wife and the son she bore him just months after the scandal broke. He has a viable political career. But as a New York Times story this week has revealed, the women who were on the receiving end of Weiner's attentions have fared differently.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/the_endless_slut_shaming_of_weiners_women/feed/ 68 The worst of the Paula Deen defenders http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/best_of_the_worst_paula_deen_defenders/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/best_of_the_worst_paula_deen_defenders/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:55:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13333654 The Food Network is letting go of its longtime host and celebrity chef, Paula Deen, responding to outrage over Deen's recent racist words.

Deen's use of racial slurs, her rep's response to the fiasco, and her bizarre apology have been indefensible. But Fox News, stalwart defender of civil liberties that it is, has come to her rescue. Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes said that the "liberal, anti-South media is trying to crucify Paula Deen."

"They accuse her of using a derogatory word to describe a black person. Paula admitted she used the word -- back in the 1980s -- when a black guy walked into the bank, stuck a gun in her face and ordered her to hand over the cash. The national media failed to mention that part of the story. I'll give credit to the Associated Press for telling the full story."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/best_of_the_worst_paula_deen_defenders/feed/ 43 Paula Deen to address racism comments in video http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/paula_deen_to_address_racism_comments_in_video/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/paula_deen_to_address_racism_comments_in_video/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:42:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13333078 While Americans continue to mock and excoriate celebrity chef Paula Deen for admitting that "Yeah, of course" she uses the racial epithets and holds a certain nostalgic fondness for slavery, the celebrity chef remained conspicuously silent on the matter -- until now.

Through a rep, she issued a meek, problematic apology to TMZ (Deen was "speaking largely about a time in American history which was quite different than today") on Thursday, but was a no-show for her first real opportunity to address the controversy -- a "Today" show interview scheduled with Matt Lauer this morning.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/paula_deen_to_address_racism_comments_in_video/feed/ 5 The seven best Hulk accounts on Twitter http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/the_seven_best_hulk_accounts_on_twitter/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/the_seven_best_hulk_accounts_on_twitter/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:39:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13331289 If you're on Twitter, you've probably come across at least one Hulk parody account. If you're not, they are what they sound like -- accounts that tweet in Hulk-speak (think "Hulk smash!"). Some, like Drunk Hulk, have been among the Internet's most celebrated parody accounts for a while. Others, like Film Critic Hulk and Editor Hulk, have been guest writers at the New Yorker and done Q&A's, respectively.

The Hulk theme, an easily mimicked formula of capital letters and neanderthal-type speak, has led to an explosion of accounts parodying the Marvel comic icon (I counted around 150, and last year The Daily Dot reported that there are hundreds), and, like almost all parody accounts, most of them are not very good. In an effort to separate the genuinely amusing from the imitators, we present the top seven Hulk accounts actually worth following:

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Some people used Gandolfini's passing as an opportunity to try out fledgling stand-up material, cracking wise about the infamous "Sopranos" finale, in which Tony Soprano orders a side of onion rings before the screen fades to black:

 

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/gandolfinis_death_prompts_rampant_fat_shaming/feed/ 49 James Gandolfini and the rush to the first tweet http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/james_gandolfini_and_the_rush_to_the_first_tweet/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/james_gandolfini_and_the_rush_to_the_first_tweet/#comments Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:29:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13331945 The news that "The Sopranos" star James Gandolfini -- such an important figure in the American imagination even six years after his run on television ended in a New Jersey diner -- has died is particularly hard to grasp. The actor was young, 51, with what sounds like great screen work ahead of him. And it's impossible to overstate the influence of his performance as Tony Soprano.

But as the news broke last night, the sadness and shock fans expressed online began to feel, well, a little like a contest, both to be first and to feel the most.

Celebrity deaths have always been, for lack of a better word, weird, merging the abstract sadness of lost potential with the directness of having "known" the departed in some way into an uncanny feeling of the loss of a friend. But the memories you share of the deceased aren't personal -- other than the circumstances of where each viewer watched, say, Gandolfini's performances in "The Sopranos" or "Zero Dark Thirty" or "True Romance," the memories are exactly the same as everyone else's.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/james_gandolfini_and_the_rush_to_the_first_tweet/feed/ 7 Hollywood remembers James Gandolfini http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/hollywood_remembers_james_gandolfini/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/hollywood_remembers_james_gandolfini/#comments Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13331501 Actor James Gandolfini, best known for his portrayal as mafioso Tony Soprano in HBO's hit series "The Sopranos," died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 51.

Hollywood is just beginning to mourn the sudden and unexpected death of an actor whose portrayal of Tony Soprano was, as Salon's Willa Paskin put it, "so great that it finally made TV a prestigious place for actors to work."

Celebrities took to Twitter to express their condolences and sense of loss:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/hollywood_remembers_james_gandolfini/feed/ 2 Paula Deen’s racism goes viral with #PaulasBestDishes http://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/paulas_best_dishes_are_racist_jokes_twitter/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/paulas_best_dishes_are_racist_jokes_twitter/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:26:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13330887 In case you didn't know, Paula Deen is a racist. In the 1950s 2013, when America is still plagued by Confederate flag-bandying, accidental racists and segregating prom-goers, Twitter user Pope Jeffuhz I and TheRoot.com editor and humorist Tracy Clayton, aka BrokeyMcPoverty, responded by laughing at Deen's reported racism. They started a hashtag riffing off of Deen's TV show, "Paula's Best Dishes":

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/paulas_best_dishes_are_racist_jokes_twitter/feed/ 38 Internet trolls love feminist writers http://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/internet_trolls_biggest_target_feminist_writers_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/internet_trolls_biggest_target_feminist_writers_partner/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:25:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13330700 PolicyMicWhat is it like to be a woman on the internet? More specifically, what is it like to be a feminist woman on the internet? From the amount of hateful, sexist, and outright violent messages I and many feminist activists and writers receive on a daily basis, it’s not easy.

As a white, straight, middle-class, able-bodied, cisgender woman, I know that because of the myriad privileged identities that I hold, the attacks I receive often pale in comparison to others. And yet, every time I submit a piece or send a tweet, I brace myself for the reality that some of the ensuing responses will be incredibly sexist and demeaning, perhaps even violent. It seems that being a woman who speaks her mind about injustice is unacceptable for many inhabitants of the internet.

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