America’s First Lady joins Twitter
Michelle Obama joined Twitter on January 12, adding more social media power to Obama’s re-election campaign. Like her husband’s Twitter account, it will be managed by campaign staff with occasional tweets with personal signatures. Tweets from the First Lady herself will be signed “-mo”, similar to tweets on President Obama’s Twitter account signed “-bo”. She’s already amassed over 360,000 followers, who she acknowledged in her first personal tweet:
Hi, everyone, and thanks for the warm welcome. Look forward to staying in touch with you here. -mo
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) January 12, 2012
The account has only posted 12 tweets so far, with topics ranging from health care to Martin Luther King Jr. to her recent appearance iCarly, a kid-friendly sitcom on Nickelodeon starring Miranda Cosgrove, which includes a “random dancing” segment where Michelle busts a move!
Ochocinco makes up for 2 years of ignored tweets
Florida college student Victor Gonzalez tweeted his way to see the NFL playoff game between the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos. Gonzalez had been tweeting to Patriots wide receiver Chad Ochocinco for two years and never received a response from him. When he tweeted Ochocinco again to point this out, the NFL star decided to make up for it by inviting Gonzalez to last Sunday’s game. Ochocinco took care of Gonzalez’s travel to Foxboro and hotel stay as well.
Ashton Kutcher gets Punk’d by hacker and vows revenge
Add another person to the list of people tweeting from Ashton Kutcher’s account besides Ashton Kutcher: a hacker. Over the weekend, his Twitter and Foursquare accounts were hacked. The hacker seemed to want to add steam to rumors about a romance between Kutcher and Lorene Scafaria.
A fake tweet read: “First official sleepover with my girl @lorenescafaria so maybe breakfast with everyone next time! (@ Lorene’s House)”, with a link to a Foursquare check-in with a map showing Scafaria’s house.
Kutcher caught on and removed the tweets. But thanks to Foursquare (which Kutcher owns shares in and promotes), Kutcher also caught the hacker’s physical location. He has now vowed to find the hacker, tweeting “I’m coming for you my friend” with a link to a map showing the location, and “You hacked my Foursquare and I now know your address. Whoops…This is gonna be fun.”
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