TagsTagsFor several weeks on Twitter, the wingnut army has been staging a massive freak-out about a strange persecution fantasy; they imagine that they're being sent to a "Twitter Gulag" by a conspiracy of left wing activists, who somehow control Twitter with their diabolical liberal super-powers. What's really happening is that sites ...
Twitter, Twitchy, Michelle Malkin, Persecution Complex, Idiocy, Harassment, Conspiracy Theories, Right Wing
All day long, Breitbart.com editor and CNN contributor Dana Loesch has been spewing insults at me on Twitter; it probably has something to do with our posts on Breitbart.com's Ludicrous 'Not-Birther' Article and on Loesch's claims that Mitt Romney is counting on bloggers like her to attack Obama using Rev. ...
Breitbart.com, Mini-Breitbarts, Dana Loesch, Twitter, GI Joe, Right Wing, Idiocy
Breitbart.com editor John Nolte is calling for right wingers to harass, stalk, and bully liberals on Twitter, and in typical Breitbart megalomaniac fashion, Nolte calls this "The Battle for America on Twitter." I think it's a great idea for wingnuts like Nolte to get out there in public and show the ...
Breitbart.com, Mini-Breitbarts, John Nolte, Violent Fantasies, Hate Speech, Right Wing, Twitter
If you haven't already, be sure to read STLActivist's devastating LGF article on the cynical self-promoting tactics of CNN contributor/Breitbart editor Dana Loesch: How Dana and Chris Loesch Exploited the Conservative Movement ... Again. As we've seen before, Loesch and husband Chris do not respond well to criticism; their usual reaction ...
Tonight, Dana Loesch is calling for an investigation into my sinister plot to silence conservatives. [Insert evil laugh.] Some should check out Charles Johnson's blatant violation, abuse of TOS in effort to silence conservatives. He's trying hard to hide it! — Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 2, 2012 Followed up, in the usual Loesch ...
Dana Loesch, Chris Loesch, Twitter, TwitterGulag, Fake Outrage, Conspiracy Theories, Right Wing, smears
As nearly every right wing "news" source pushes the ridiculous paranoid claim that conservatives are being targeted in a "block and report" campaign on Twitter in order to get their accounts suspended -- a claim for which they present absolutely zero evidence -- here's an article at Yahoo News on ...
Twitter, Dana Loesch, Chris Loesch, paranoia, Conspiracy Theories, Right Wing, Idiocy
The big news last night on Twitter was that Dana Loesch's husband Chris Loesch had his account suspended. Dana and Michelle Malkin and every wingnut drone on Twitter immediately started yelping that they were being targeted by "progressives" falsely reporting them as spam. They present absolutely no evidence for this ...
Twitter, Right Wing, Idiocy, Dana Loesch, Chris Loesch, whining, Persecution Complex
Here's the background on this amazingly lengthy series of diatribes spewed at me on Twitter in the past day or two: In Which CNN Contributor Dana Loesch Falsely Accuses Me of Using a Racial Slur. After I posted that article, Loesch went nuts -- tweeting insults at me over and over ...
Right Wing, Dana Loesch, Dan Riehl, Jim Treacher, Idiocy, Twitter
In the past week or so I've noticed the rise of a new spammers' tactic on Twitter, and unfortunately they're using LGF to help them do it. Whoever's running this spam campaign is retweeting my posts about LGF articles and Pages, but changing the URLs to point to spam sites or ...
This isn't a huge change, but I know that unless I explain what's up, some people will have questions so ... here's the deal. I've decided to eliminate the "alternate" method of posting LGF Pages -- clicking the "Show top rated Pages" link at the top, then clicking "submit a link." Clicking ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Bookmarklet, Twitter
I can see from our registered user database that quite a few LGF readers have connected their LGF accounts to their Twitter accounts, allowing them to use our Twitter app "LGF Connect" to retweet links to our articles. (And note: you can give LGF Connect a try even without being a ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, API, LGF Connect
As I was working with the code for our new LGF Connect feature that lets you post to Twitter with Ajax, I realized there was no reason to limit its usage to people with LGF accounts. Instead, I could do the standard Twitter authorization dance (basically the same code you ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API, LGF Connect
Now that we have the infrastructure for the linking of LGF accounts to Twitter accounts, we have another new feature to announce: our retweet buttons (at the top right of each post) now use the LGF Connect app to post your tweet directly on Twitter, using Ajax instead of pop-up ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API
We have a brand new feature tonight in LGF Pages, something I mentioned as "coming soon" in the previous Tech Note: auto-posting to Twitter, by linking your LGF account to your Twitter account. Background: one of the groovy things you can do with Twitter is to give third party "apps" access ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API
There are some new features in LGF Pages, our simple but powerful blogging system for registered users: 1) Pages now have all the same sharing tools as LGF front page articles; a Facebook Like button, a Google +1 button, a retweet button for Twitter, and a "Share" button that pops up ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, Facebook, Google
Fox News is claiming that their @foxnewspolitics Twitter account was hacked last night, when someone posted a series of tweets claiming that the President had been assassinated. Click to enlarge These messages were only deleted within the past hour -- Fox News left them online all night long and most of the ...
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has hit on a creative way to use Twitter for political purposes -- by posting fake retweets pretending to be from Democrats, along with a link to a website called "demsplanforamerica.com" that is nothing but a blank page. Get it? The GOP: always finding new ways ...
National Republican Senatorial Committee, Republican Party, Twitter, Impersonation, Idiocy
Rep. Anthony Weiner has announced his resignation, so the media feeding frenzy has subsided. But even though Weiner admitted to his "sexting" transgressions, his behavior wasn't the only creepy thing about this scandal; for months, Weiner was stalked online by a group of extreme right wingers who may have created fake ...
Anthony Weiner, Scandal, Resignation, Stalking, Harassment, Twitter
Announcing a new feature for registered users: if you have a Twitter account, you can now save your Twitter username in your LGF Account Settings page (it's near the bottom of the page). Once you enter the Twitter name and save settings, a link will appear in your LGF user profile ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, Social Media, LGF Pages
I'd like to draw your attention to our left sidebar, where you'll see two new additions to the list of "drop-down" links: "Tweeted Articles," and "Tweeted Pages." These new drop-down lists show you the most-tweeted (in other words, posted on Twitter) LGF front page articles and user-submitted LGF Pages, in the ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, Retweet
On Tuesday I put together a list of the most retweeted LGF Pages in February, so to complete the stats here are last month's top 10 retweeted LGF front page articles, in reverse order: #10 - 88 retweets GOP House: Planned Parenthood Bad, NASCAR Good #9 - 91 retweets Crassest Right Wing Blogger of ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Articles, Twitter
It's the Internet equivalent of the vanity license plate, but I couldn't resist. When you use our little blue Twitter buttons to retweet a post from LGF on Twitter, either from a front page article or an LGF Page, the link to the post inside your tweet will now use ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF, Blogosphere, URL Shorteners, Twitter, Technology, Internet
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve integrated Twitter's new official “Tweet Button” into the LGF Blog code to see how it compares to our previous Tweet button/retweet count feature, which calls the API at bit.ly to get the count statistics. But I ran into a problem with the Twitter code: it’s intended ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Statistics, Twitter, Tweet Button, Javascript, jQuery
Twitter recently launched a new Tweet Button feature, and I'm trying it out today at LGF. As you can see, it includes a count of the number of times the link to the article has been posted at Twitter. I'm letting you know this because I need to test what happens ...
Tweet Button, Twitter, Statistics, LGF Blog Engine, Little Green Footballs, Tech Note
I figure it's time for an explanation of all those numbers that are showing up in your LGF Pages, so let's have at it. Here's the title line from a sample page by Killgore Trout, with the relevant areas numbered. 1. At the top right of each Page you'll see the rating ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Social Bookmarking, Twitter, Statistics