Here is Olberman complaining about Twitter from March 20th
How sad. How very, very sad (mostly for MSNBC).
Below is from Greg Pollowitz's NRO post from March 26th detailing the mistake.
And now the really funny part. This is from today's New York Times "Bits" blog on Twitter's future business model:The team does not yet know what the paid service will include, but Mr. Stone said it will likely offer things like analysis of the traffic to businesses’ Twitter profiles and verified accounts so customers know they are talking to the actual business. (That would help businesses avoid the Keith Olbermann mishap earlier this week. Mr. Olbermann named Twitter “the worst person in the world” for allowing a fake account under his name, but it turned out that MSNBC was running the account, unbeknownst to Mr. Olbermann, says Mr. Stone.)Anyone know of an apology to Fox News yet? I did a quick search of the show's transcripts from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and didn't see one.
Also of note, I actually was following Keith Olbermann on Twitter for a day or so, until I realized he wasn't using it. Whoever is in charge of the feed now has blocked it from public view. But, from what I remember, the posts were in the first person. Maybe NBC should admit that it was ghost-posting for one of its anchors?
Here is Olberman's reaction to the news.
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That is absolutely hilarious. All of it. Although I can't decide if his fierceness is funnier than the fact that they've now backed out and blocked his tweets to prying eyes looking for dead giveaways.
ReplyDeleteNow, if only I could discover with certainty if Christopher Walken is really tweeting or if it's someone who writes things that are not funny or interesting at all unless said ala Walken.
Mysteries, mysteries.