All Entries Tagged With: "Twitter"
Open File: Globe Calls Ford Fat, Then Disappears The Evidence
With the Globe and Mail in full retreat after publishing a bizarre column about mayoral candidate Rob Ford’s waistline, Open File has a complete wrap up: The original link now carries the site’s standard page-not-found message. There’s no note to explain why it was removed, or to acknowledge the fact that it once existed. “The [...]
Spacing Votes: Ford And His Twitter Trending
Spacing Votes has been following the coverage mayoral candidate Rob Ford has been receiving online, specifically on Twitter: “This morning featured Ford trending again, with a hot new faux pas — a charge for smoking pot in Florida that Ford first flat-out denied, and then accepted, saying that it had slipped his mind. This uncertainty [...]
Sun: Spelling Isn’t Optional
The Toronto Sun is reporting from the walking tour of the George Smitherman campaign, where a spelling error caused some embarrassment: “On Day One of his tour Monday, two Twitter accounts for the campaign, TeamSmitherman and G_Smitherman, spelled Eglinton incorrectly in several tweets describing the first few stops of the campaign march. The tweets added [...]
Ford Admits 2006 AIDS Comment Was ‘Mistake’
After dismissing a campaign worker over postings on the subject on Twitter, mayoral candidate Rob Ford tells the National Post that he “made a mistake” in 2006 when he offered his opinion over the spread of the AIDS virus: “What I said four years ago was wrong. I made a mistake,” Mr. Ford told the [...]
Help Sarah Thomson Pick A Theme Song
Upstart mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson is a big fan of connecting with creative folks. She has been spotted at #VoteTO events and the recent ChangeCamp gathering. She has now taken to Twitter to gather suggestions for her fledgling campaign’s theme song: To assist with this creative crowdsourcing effort, TEN would be happy to take suggestions [...]
Twitter Fans Pitch Vision For Toronto – Succinctly
The Toronto Star covered the #VoteTO and its inaugural “#VoteTOin416″ event that took place last night in downtown Toronto: “[A] dozen core tweeters came up with a plan to hold a night of ideas Thursday at the Annex Live bar on Brunswick St. They solicited “fantasy mayors,” on Twitter, of course, to pitch their alternative [...]
