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Perhaps you've been enjoying the often entertaining fake Adrian Fenty Twitter feed, @fentydc, for some time now. We know we have. A recent example why: "Reporters, go ahead and rail about my unexplained travel, compulsive workout schedule and Axe body spray-but lay off my kids. Seriously." That's funny stuff.
Much less enjoyable, it turns out, is the real Adrian Fenty Twitter feed, @MayorFenty, which started broadcasting mostly inane non sequiturs, presumably penned by someone in the mayor's communications office, about a month ago. Now in fairness, today's @MayorFenty tweets offered some actual information ("Here's the 2009 ACT college readiness report: http://bit.ly/1ad7w" – ok, sure), but over the weekend Fenty Followers were treated to not one, not two, but three reminders to stay in school. More specifically, "Kids, stay in school!", a message we can hardly argue with, but probably didn't need to be told, three times, via Twitter. How many actual kids do you suppose follow Mayor Fenty on Twitter anyway? Of his 82 current followers, we count maybe one.
Memo to the EOM: this Twitter feed is making you look pretty dumb. Fenty is one of the youngest mayors in the country, a chief executive who famously carries around three Blackberries at all times. The man can surely handle sending out one or two Tweets of his own every day -- plenty of other politicians do it. Whoever is updating this feed currently, stop it. Stop it right now. Give the mayor the password to the account and slowly walk away.
CORRECTION: Mayoral spokesperson Mafara Hobson now tells DCist that the @MayorFenty account does not belong to Mayor Fenty, and that Fenty does in fact not have a Twitter account. Hobson said she does not know who this account belongs to. Mea culpa for making this incorrect assumption. We had first read about the @MayorFenty account in this Aug. 13 City Desk post, which does state that they weren't sure if it really belonged to the mayor, and that they were waiting for confirmation.
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Wow, Fenty has only 5 more followers than I do. That's just sad.
Ha! Jim Graham has more followers than the Mayor! Granted, most of those are porn bots, but still...
Maybe Fenty thinks his followers are so stupid that they need to be reminded of basic things, like going to school and not wiping their @$$ on the carpet. I mean, his supporters aren't the smartest bunch. They seem to be willing to put up with all sorts of stupid.
"Kids! Stop throwin rocks at whitey!"
"Kids, stay in school! It wasn't easy getting you into Lafayette, and the whole God damn city is riding my ass about it!"
The exact opposite of Fenty would be Cory Booker. @corybooker
I bet the slob who posts the mayor's tweets gets paid six figures. When confronted with this, the mayor will deny knowing anything about Twitter, then become belligerant and demand to be asked the great things he's doing for the city, like cutting back on his dome wax for the war effort and how he only plows into other cars instead of pedestrians.
Maybe he caught a cardinereal disease which is untweetable.
He probably thinks @fentydc is representing him just fine.
Then again, he could realize the twitter has jumped the shark. I don't see the need to pressure these guys to tweet.
Well, $h!t, if the MAYOR tweeted that I should stay in school, then fuggit, I'M STAYING IN SCHOOL! Jeezus, how much more lame can you get? This is lamer than those goddamned "Drink Milk!" rap videos from the '80s, where the Fat Boys or Young MC would rap about how you need to drink your milk, huh-huh-huh, ignoring the fact that most African American kids are lactose intolerant. It's like when Officer Friendly came to gradeschool with his friggin band, and they played some sorry-@$$ Top 40 $h!t and told us about how "cool" it was to stay in school, then they brought out McGruff who told us to "take a bite out of crime" except some of the kids had never seen a guy in a huge goddamned dog outfit before and it freaked the hell out of them, particularly Timothy Todd, who was always wetting his pants anyway, but that friggin dog scared him worse than Liddsville and H.R. Pufinstuff COMBINED.
The the "stay in school" tweet reminded me of Chris Rock's "I take care of my kids." On both counts...YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT!
I heard he tweeted last week, that he shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
Ugh!! I do not Twitter but I will have the occasional seizure.
If I may...
Back in the ambulance, Liz.
I think the reason behind the lameness of @MayorFenty is readily apparent by the first tweet at the bottom of the page:
"Mayor Adrian M Fenty's Twitter Page Built by the 2009 Summer Youth Employment Program IT participants" (emphasis added)
Everyone knows the best DC politico using Twitter is @MikePanetta :)
Who is that?
Actually, @MayorFenty is not official, either: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/09/01/mayorfenty-twitter-feed-not-official/
It's amazing how many local blogs reported that @MayorFenty was the real Fenty without picking up a phone to confirm it.