Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Tuesday 26 November 2013
Abbott's adviser deletes Twitter account now the damage is done - blames death threats
Mark Textor an adviser to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has deleted his Twitter account @markatextor after employing the same boots and all approach to Australia-Indonesia relations as Abbott himself.
Textor claimed he could not tolerate the 'death threats' received since he sent the tweets set out below, however if these alleged threats happened they must be thin on the ground because the Topsy archive carries little or no trace of these threats as far as I can tell.
Indeed the twitterverse was more likely to respond with comments such as You are a bogan moron, end of story or "Conduct unbecoming?" Don't f*cking flatter yourself, no one expects anything better from you.
Textor has admitted he slipped up. "Twenty-five years in politics, one or two mistakes, this is certainly one of them," he said Thursday.
As we ponder what the other mistake of his career could be, here are some of his mud-slinging tweets preserved for posterity.
The one where he brought up the 2005 suicide attack in Bali and linked to a photo of the bombers
"Last time I looked no Indonesians were ever bombed in Australia" (removed from Twitter)
The one where he slammed Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's propensity to use Twitter
"What sort of head of state communicates with a head of a neighbouring government by twitter FFS? SBY" (removed from Twitter)
The one where he gave tips for saving on apparently alcoholic beverages to the leader of the country with the biggest Muslim population in the world
@Drew_Bowie @Colvinius @SBYudhoyono @TonyAbbottMHR I think he should sack his foreign service and just do twitter. Save on the drinks bill
— Mark Textor (@markatextor) November 19, 2013
The one where he predicted journalists would find Indonesia's relationship with Australia sexually arousing…
Indonesian junior official criticises Oz Government. 2 things happen: left media gets hard on. Govt gets more domestic support
— Mark Textor (@markatextor) November 11, 2013
… but that anyone who mattered didn't care if Indonesians were offended
"No one gives a rat's arse in the real world. The bubble at work." (removed from Twitter)
The one where he described Indonesia's ambassador to Australia as a chess piece
Indonesian ambassador Read: Pawn of Indonesian domestic politics #indonesiavotes2014
— Mark Textor (@markatextor) November 18, 2013
The one where he implied the Indonesian President was senile
"Poor old bugger SBY is confused." (removed from Twitter)
The one where he re-tweeted a political reporter's response to his porn star slur
@latikambourke @markatextor Personally I disagree Mark. Marty looks more like a bad 70′s Bond villain.
When he reacted to the controversy over his porn star slur
@cathywilcox1 @jonathanvswan it's dull. Silly, gossipy and moronic. Compensated for by fake moral outrage and intellectual snobbery.
— Mark Textor (@markatextor) November 19, 2013
The time he claimed Indonesia's reaction to the spying controversy was fake
@PetefromHayNSW I think we act peacefully. But the fake indo outrage posturing is frustrating.
— Mark Textor (@markatextor) November 19, 2013
The one where he demanded Indonesia apologize for spying in 2004
SBY should apologise. "Indonesia 'bugged' Australia By Brendan Nicholson National Security Correspondent Canberra November 15, 2004″
— Mark Textor (@markatextor) November 19, 2013
The one where he took a dig at Australia's public broadcaster and gossip columnists
@latikambourke Where did i mention SBY exactly? More ABC inaccurate nonsense. More ant rooting from glorified gossip columnists
Front page mock up courtesy of @lol_trotsky
Labels:
Abbott,
Australia-Indonesia relations,
troll,
Twitter
Thursday 27 June 2013
Sunday 7 April 2013
Twitterverse in 2013: Kath doesn't heart Mark the MP
Kath Crosby on her blog Begin Rant:
Sunday 3 February 2013
Channel 10 gets caught by the Streisand Effect
On Monday 28 January 2013, in a month which saw Australia wracked by bushfires and floods, @TenLateNews tweeted this…..
Once the fingers stopped typing the Channel 10 crew apparently had second thoughts and deleted this monumentally inappropriate tweet. Thereby ensuring it was going to be picked up and amplified by the Twitterverse.
Hers is a small sample:
. @TenLateNews what happened to that ridiculous tweet? Why delete? We all know it happened. #auspol #ausmedia
“@FakeChrisPyne: Hey @TenLateNews, I think you misplaced your tweet. Lucky I saved a copy for you! #auspol http://t.co/NT0YVITf” What the?
Oh. Look at @tenlatenews deleting tweets like they never happened. New to the internet, are we? #tenlate
In a sea of @AndrewLamingMP derp, @TenLateNews still leads the pack at 48.59% Add your vote now http://t.co/0bdKCwCk#DumbestTweet2013
Labels:
Channel Ten,
media,
politics,
Twitter
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Uncle Joe Hockey, insomniac
Think a pollie found awake after 3am is either partying hard or tackling a backlog in policy paperwork?
Think again. Some are just cybersurfing and playing with 140 characters on Twitter.
GO TO SLEEP JOE!
Labels:
Twitter
Tuesday 1 January 2013
Joe Hockey on the subject of broken promises
Labels:
Liberal Party of Australia,
politics,
Twitter
Sunday 23 December 2012
Joe Hockey: "a nasty man"
Labels:
Liberal Party of Australia,
Twitter
Thursday 8 November 2012
Trump melts down as Obama romps back into the White House
Donald Trump went into Twitter meltdown when it became evident that Barack Obama had been re-elected as President.
He may have deleted one or two of those tweets, but what remains courtesy of Topsy may haunt him in the future:
Our country is now in serious and unprecedented trouble... like never before.
House of Representatives shouldn't give anything to Obama unless he terminates Obamacare.
Hopefully the House of Representatives can hold our country together for four more years...stay strong and never give up!
The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.
Our country is now in serious and unprecedented trouble...like never before.
This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!
More votes equals a loss...revolution!
Lets fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.
We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!
The phoney electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!
He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!
Well, back to the drawing board!
Labels:
right wing politics,
Twitter,
USA
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