Some Twitter 'rules' for candidates

Cari Gervin has a hilarious primer on the etiquettes of using Twitter, particularly when running a campaign. And yes, a bunch of you need to learn how.

Click right smack here to read.

In the meantime, the mean one says:

• Don’t link to something on Facebook with no content.
• Don’t post Facebook status updates automatically to Twitter if they are more than 140 characters.
• Don’t retweet yourself. Seriously. It’s dumb. She explains why.           
• Don’t  retweet every person who mentions you!
• Do be consistent in you how you refer to yourself. Particularly lame is when you refer to yourself in the third person.
• Do understand how Twitter functions.

Anyhoo, those are Gerwin’s suggestions, but, really, you should read the piece. The examples – yes they’re real screenshots – alone are worth it.

By the way, there's some serious irony with Cari writing about what to do and not do on Twitter, but I digress.

Heh.

'Finding Bigfoot' to air Sunday

Well, the "Finding Bigfoot" show that Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett lured here will air on Sunday. Click right smack here for the story.

We'll have all sorts of coverage on the event for Monday. In addition #Knoxvillebigfoot sounds like a decent Twitter hashtag for the evening.

And to answer your question, no they didn't find Bigfoot.

Kincannon goes after mayor on Twitter

Knox County school board member Indy Kincannon earlier tonight took a shot at county Mayor Tim Buchett on Twitter, saying: "Imagine if Tim Burchett spent as much time supporting our kids as he does bashing our schools superintendent."

I'm assuming Kincannon's tweet is in response to a story I wrote - right smack here - about Burchett's request that the school system hire an outside auditor to look at school security, and a story Georgiana Vines wrote - right smack here - in which Burchett also used a GOP meeting to push for an elected school superintendent.
 
I talked to the mayor about it and he said: "That's her right as an American to do that. My father fought in World War II for her right and my uncle died in World War II, so I stand behind her First Amendment rights."

No word on whether the mayor, who is no stranger to Twitter, will take to the web waves with another response.

Mayor doesn't hold back on Twitter

Well, it wasn’t exactly a Donald Trump-like  meltdown on the Twitterverse because, well, almost no one can be as stupid and ridiculous as Trump and the dead animal that sits on top of his head, (how many times has be filed for bankruptcy and why is he still allowed a credit card again?), but Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett – a well know twittin’ Twitter-er (yes he does his own tweets) on Friday night had a few things to say about the University of Tennessee.

The tweet in question: “I need to get him some tats and a criminal record so UT will be interested.” (He was no doubt referring to the troubled football program. (“Troubled” being generous. How about that Kentucky game last year. Bwahahahahahah.)

 The mayor, of course, was writing about his nephew, a senior who plays quarterback on the Christian Academy Knoxville football team and is a finalist for Mr. Football. The kid is a stud. (CAK also beat up on Alcoa last night by the way.) And he’s certainly better than that pretender who can hit a car with a beer bottle on a Friday night but can’t manage to find his wide receivers the next afternoon.

Anyhoo, Burchett quickly took down the tweet, but not before a number of folks retweeted it. One person said it wasn’t smart of him, another thanked him for his honesty and another told him to “stay classy.” Whatever. You got to see the stuff I have to remove sometimes. Heh.

“I pulled it down pretty quickly,” the mayor, who has almost 1,800 followers on the social media site, told me this after. “I was just being funny but everyone went ballistic. I didn’t think anyone read that stupid thing. It was probably up for about five minutes.”

Course in all the outrage, no one seemed to notice all the nice stuff he said about veterans.

Follow the knoxvote hashtag tomorrow

Hey, just to let you know if you're into that whole twittin' on Twitter thing, then check out the hashtag #knoxvote tomorrow. Apparently, that's what we're going to be using to follow, and write about, and make fun of the elections. Or whatever.

We'll probably have some fancy pictures on there, too.

In the meantime, don't forget to follow me on Twitter, as I always ramble like a mental patient and I'll be spouting out the ol' Dan Ratherims like they're Hotter than a Time Square Rolex.” And, I'll probably forget to use the hashtag.

By the way, am I the only one that thinks a hashtag sounds like something illegal?