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Devendra Banhart @ 9:30 Club
We've been giving the largely lame-o @MayorFenty Twitter feed a hard time for a couple of days now. This is after word of the presumed official mayoral feed first came out earlier in August. But now, weeks later, the Mayor's Office is saying that the @MayorFenty feed isn't actually theirs, City Desk reports.
So what took them so long to finally disavow it? And who on earth is behind it? It's too boring to be the work of someone looking to play an actual joke. (We hope). DCist, too, noticed the strange message attributing the Twitter page to lawyers at McKenna, Long & Aldridge (which has since been removed), but requests for further explanation from those attorneys went unanswered.
Who are you, @MayorFenty?
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I am fascinated with the attention being given to such a non-issue.
Is there anything I can do to destroy Twitter? Literally, physically destroy it. Can I get into an X-wing fighter and blow up some nerd's basement - will that end it? I am willing to sacrifice my life for this crusade.
I don't know, but I think it might involve every user tweeting at the exact same second, thereby blowing up their servers. If you figure out a way, I am on board to help.
I am with you 100% on this issue.
Fortunately there is a very narrow a/c duct that runs from the exterior of the basement to the core reactor within. Unfortunately the likelyhood of hitting said target involves a very high margin of error. There will be only one chance at this...
So, who told DCist it WAS his official Twitter feed? And why didn't you pick up a phone to confirm it when you first reported that it was his?
It came from the city paper. Not to single out DCist, but they are typical of the "look at me, I have a blog, I am a journalist!!" school. I bet you no one at DCist has ever picked up a phone to ask someone a question.