Update 11.20 am: CNN: Twitter hoax spreads rumors of airlines’ free flights to Haiti Oh, the “UPS is shipping packages free” meme is also a hoax Update 12.57 am: Silly me. I went to the American Airlines website looking for info, but it did not occur to me to check out American’s twitter feed. There […]
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I can tell I’ve been out of PR for a while. My spidy sense did not kick in when I made my first #amazonfail tweet about 4 pm Pacific. About an hour later, I realized that #amazonfail had passed a tipping point. A Twitter search on #amazonfail revealed that the 100th page of the search […]
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Kurt Vonnegut: Not a hoax!
The next time you get an e-mail purporting to be the words of Kurt Vonnegut … it might actually be true! Using BlogPulse, a new search tool, I found that Wednesday’s #3 “link of the day” was authored by none other than Mr. Vonnegut. BlogPulse also provides a list of key phrases as well as […]