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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.

The ongoing saga of the abrupt eviction of the Recreation Wish List Committee, run by Cora Masters Barry, from the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center keeps attracting more and more big guns. D.C. Wire updates today that none other than Maya Angelou and Dorothy Height were trying to get a meeting with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty this past week to discuss the matter. And to make matters worse, sources are telling the Post that Fenty canceled not one, but two meetings with the women. And just when you thought Fenty's office couldn't appear to be any more callous on this issue. But wait! What's that you say, @MayorFenty?

Missed meeting with Dr. Maya Angelou & Dorothy Height was due to scheduling conflicts and not disrespect :-)

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.

A few American orchestras have been experimenting with ways to engage the digital generation during their concerts, with interactive program notes that appear in real time through the hand-held or seat-back devices normally used for showing translations of foreign-language operas. As related by Baltimore Sun classical music critic Tim Smith over at his blog, the National Symphony Orchestra will be attempting something along those lines during its concert at Wolf Trap on July 30.

Yesterday, we mentioned in the Morning Roundup that our DCist_Updates Twitter feed is officially one year old this week. We're not exactly gunning for Ashton Kutcher-like numbers here, but we are pleased to note that just today we reached 5,000 followers. Thanks so much to all of you who already follow and retweet us on a regular basis! For those of you who don't yet, know that DCist doesn't blast every post we write onto our Twitter feed. Instead, we try to keep you updated when breaking news hits or when especially interesting or popular posts go up (you don't want to miss Overheard in D.C., do you?). Twitter accounts are free, and you can follow DCist_Updates here.

In order to get a better idea of "what it's like to be at the game," the Post's online sports department is testing out a Nationals Park Twitter mashup during this weekend's home series against the Braves. If you want to participate, you can hashtag your tweets from the game with #natswp and #[section number] -- now, your report that "the guy next to me is really scarfing those nachos, gross #natswp #404" can be spread even farther around the interwebs! It's an interesting idea, to be sure, but the commenters on the Nationals Journal post which announced the project offer up some legitimate questions, ones this writer was also thinking about. What if the system was overloaded with rival tweets or notes from people who aren't even at the ballpark? How many people in attendance even know what Twitter is or how to use it? What about the fact that we're willing to bet that less than 140 characters is hardly enough to truly describe the hardball ineptitude that could be on display? Finally: is there really anything to gain from this? We'll see -- until the Post makes a decision to go live with the mashup on a consistent basis or not, you can check out the aggregate here.

Unsuck DC Metro undertook a yeoman's task this week uncovering the news that, just like many celebrities, WMATA has its share of imposters on Twitter. The blog reported on Wednesday that they were contacted by WMATA spokesman Ronald A. Holzer Jr. after publishing a post which questioned a cryptic tweet about an escalator disruption at the Ballston station. The post's writer was unaware that the cut-off message was coming from an unauthorized twitter account -- WMATA's official presence on Twitter is located at the username "metroopensdoors"; the blog had been pulling news from the username "wmata".

D.C. Wire tips us off to a new Twitter feed and Facebook page for the D.C. Fire Department and EMS services. In a nod to the Washington Post city desk's sometimes strained relationship to blogging, they don't actually provide you with direct links to the new features, instead just suggesting that you search for them yourself, so here you go: twitter.com/dcfireems and Dc Fireems on Facebook. DC Fire/EMS spokesperson Alan Etter told D.C. Wire he plans to post breaking news and other official department updates on the Twitter feed, which today has already garnered entertaining results. To wit:

Twitter can be a convenient way for you to keep up with your friends, and now it may allow you to keep up with Metro service disruptions.

If you don't already follow DCist_Updates on Twitter, click on that link and sign up right now. Normally we use that feed to send out breaking news updates and select links to our most critical or useful content, but during the Inauguration, it's going to be much more. Our entire staff will be fanned out across the city covering all the Inaugural action as it happens, and DCist HQ will be sorting through their news tips and sending them out to followers of DCist_Updates as we get them. If you plan to go down to the National Mall or parade route on Tuesday, or if you're going to stay warm at home and watch the whole thing on TV but still want to know what's going on around the city, the DCist_Updates feed is the place where you'll find the most relevant updates for D.C. area residents.

Yesterday afternoon, the Examiner's Leah Fabel first reported that Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham planned to introduce legislation today that would allow D.C.'s bars and restaurants to serve alcohol until 5 a.m., and to keep doors open 24-hours per day, between Jan. 17 and Jan. 21 to accommodate inauguration tourists. We then linked to it in our end of the day roundup. D.C. Wire posted its own version this morning. Then about an hour later, D.C. Shadow Representative Mike Panetta posted the following message to his Twitter feed:

DC Council extends "last call" to 5 am during inauguration week. Sounds fun, but I'll be happy to stay awake past midnight :)

When you add #dcistvote to your Election Day messages on Twitter today, they should appear in the above feed for everyone to see. You can also subscribe to the feed via RSS, and view the live feed on Twitter here. Scroll through and see what DCist readers are talking about on Twitter today.

DCist's Twitter feed's not just for weekdays any more. Now that DCist is open on the weekends, we're ready to fire off breaking news in 140-character bursts straight to your digitally addled brains. Twitter, for those of you still stuck in early 2008, allows you to send text directly to groups of subscription followers via SMS and Web app.

Don't forget to sign up to follow my updates from the Democratic National Convention on Twitter. Click to follow DCistAtDNC, and keep tabs on where I am and who I'm talking to as it happens. If you don't use Twitter, you can also see my most recent updates in the left hand column of the DCist homepage. And for the most recent posts from Denver, you can click the DCist at DNC tag, a link for which we've temporarily placed on the main menu bar at the top of the page.

You can now follow DCist on Twitter so you'll know when we add good stuff to the site. As many of you no doubt know, Twitter allows you to keep in touch with friends with short updates via the web or SMS.