Cover Your Eyes and Hide the Children – It’s Mayor Sullivan’s Favorite Tweet!
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Normally this is a family blog, but thanks to Mayor Dan Sullivan, it’s now temporarily for adults only.
Here’s one for the books.
I was waiting in the studio for Thursdays in the Mud, my weekly appearance on the Shannyn Moore Show (1-2pm KUDO 1080am) and I got an email.
“You’ll never believe this!” it said. And indeed I didn’t.
Mayor Sullivan apparently has a favorite Tweeter or made a giant gaffe. And to answer your question – No, I have no idea what the Mayor was thinking when he added this young lady to his favorites list. Actually it’s the only favorite. Hmmmm. I’m thinking that a public records request for any mysterious trips to Ft. Wayne, Indiana may be in order.
You may be thinking… “I can’t see anything.”
Exactly, gentle reader. You’ll need to scroll way down to read. And you’ll need to promise me that you’re over 18, and that there are no sensitive or impressionable children in the room. And you can’t blame me if you burst a vein in your head from laughing. Or if you have fainting spells, or a heart condition. And you can’t blame me if this puts mental pictures in your head that give you PTSD for the rest of your life, and makes you want to pour bleach in your eyes. And yes, this was a live link to Mayor Sullivan’s page, and was in no way altered or distorted. What you see is what you get.
So, if you agree to all of that, then scroll away. You stand warned.
And I’m going to go add this one to my growing Dan Sullivan photo gallery. I’ll be updating with more info shortly.
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UPDATE:
Here is some clarification for the non-Twitter savvy among us. Here’s a picture of what the top of Mayor Sullivan’s current Twitter page looks like. If I’m looking down there on the list of all his tweets (messages) that show up on his page, and I want to save it, then I take the cursor and hover over the right hand side of the text box. As if by magic, three options will appear under the cursor -
1) “Retweet” (which means I wants to share this tweet with my followers)
2) “Reply” (which means I wants to answer the person who posted that tweet, in this case Mayor Sullivan)
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3) “Favorite This Tweet” – With this one, a little star lights up, and the text box appears. If you click this star, the tweet will get saved to your favorites area. Then when people click on the “favorites” bar over on the right, they can see a list of your favorite tweets.
I can also favorite a tweet from my own Twitter page. It works just the same way.
This screen capture should help to illustrate what I’m talking about. This is Mayor Sullivan’s response to the fact that he had Ms. Olson’s tweet saved as a favorite. If you look at the arrows, you’ll see his options. The orange arrow points to “Favorite this tweet.” Investigations are ongoing to find a “Delete” button… (there isn’t one)
And here’s a picture of my Twitter page, showing the most recent posts of the people I’m following, and then my own most recent post up top in grey letters. If I wanted to “Favorite” Elding’s tweet, I’d just click on the star.
I have no doubt that the Mayor did not purposefully save Ms. Olson’s tweet to his Favorites page thinking that everyone could see it. It certainly doesn’t look very professional. But about the “erroneous setting” … I will defer to the very clear explanation provided by Mudflatter AKDaveDownUnder who says:
I have a twittering lesson for those of you who have asked. Now E in New England @5:55 pm did a good job explaining things quickly, I have a few things to add.
As E in New England said,
1) Anyone can decide to “follow” a public twit (I’m a public twit, BTW). Only the public twit himself/herself can choose to “follow” another public twit.
However, this has nothing to do with following someone, it’s about favoriting a specific tweet.
2) A simple click of a highlighted star symbol next to ANYONE’S tweet will mark ANYONE’S tweet as one of your favorites.
But I can’t see anyone “mistaking” the highlighted star as some sort of delete.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to delete someone else’s tweet! Can. Not. Be. Done! I’ve noticed that at MayorSullivan’s twittering twat page that someone has already used the excuse of: Oops, hit the wrong button and I really meant to delete it.
WRONG!!!! Can’t be done. Period.
In order to “favorite” someone else’s tweet, you must have been READING their tweets. No if’s, and’s, or but(t)’s about it.
You can “unfavorite” the tweet, but in order to that you must have “favorited” the tweet first.
This means that either Mayor Sullivan or one of his “senior staff” (that’s what it says on his twittering twat page) MUST have been reading the tweets from Bree Olson.
DEFinitely “not safe for work” I’d say…. Stay tuned.
Something tells me Bree’s NOT on Mrs Dan’s favorites list.
Whaaaaaaaaaat?
Someone is going to have to explain facebook to me. Can just anyone sign up and be your facebook friend? Is it possible that he didn’t know this person? As creepy as he is, I find this hard to believe.
Some Alaskan village is missing its idiot!
Isn’t that gal a FOX News babe?
Ooo, double icons. Fun.
She’s not the party planner is she?
It’s not a matter of just anyone being able to follow him, he would have had to actively mark that tweet as a favorite.
To be fair, we need Twitter-savvy mudpups to explain to us how this could happen if it wasn’t intentional, because the spin is already generated as an accident.
On FB, MySpace and Twitter, you pick up stranger requests that for a lot of people, are the only way they socialize.
I am trying to be fair here, and before Dan Coffee issues a ten page defense with diagrams, graphs and other addendums, we shouldn’t pile on just cause this guy’s already got a pretty douchey record. . .
Alrighty then, that is disgusting. Thanks for the clarification, Scottdc. The whole social networking thing is new to me.
EEEWWWWWW! This is just wrong on so many levels!
The denial begins:
“Re: erroneous setting. Honest mistake. Hit wrong button in attempt to delete.”
A non- twitter user here, not that I am trying to defend him, but this sounds too outrageous to be to be true. I mean really, even a Republican politician can’t be that stupid. Is there a way to find out who posted this?
i just googled Bree Olson and discovered she is an internet pornstar with a website where you can sign up and view her – stuff. It seems likely that Sullivan is simply a member of her site and received a spam-ish post from it. It is not exactly uncommon for guys to view porn on the web, not illegal, but hypocritical if you are a pro-family Republican.
Maybe there isn’t really much else to do in Ft. Wayne. I’m sure someone will notice if he disappears from Anchorage for a few days and show up in northern Indiana.
Seriusly, don’t you folks have any sort of recall mechanism?
WTF?
Their family values are on “PAUSE”.
It’s my understanding that no one can post on your page until you add them as a friend. I also believe that when you want to mark someone as a favorite or delete them there is a prompt that asks are you sure you want to add/delete?
I’m not on Facebook, and I don’t tweet, so I’m curious and hoping someone can enlighten me.
Palin wasn’t writing her own Facebook posts. Is it possible that Mayor Sullivan wasn’t managing his own Twitter account? In other words, could a disgruntled or not-so-bright staffer have done this?
if he isn’t managing his own account or at least monitoring it, then he deserves the backlash! …of course, isn’t this the typical defense?
Crisco used to have a commercial showing everyone enjoying pies, cakes, cookies etc. at a picnic and in the end said with a southern drawl…….
” make ya praaawd evrya tahm”
His poor kids!!
While his wife chose him, they can’t help who they’re born to.
THIS should be a poster or at least a slogan to get the folks in Anchorage off their duffs and go and VOTE.
The voter turn out seems as shameful as this mayor has turned out to be.
This civic duty needs to taught from 1st to 12th grade!
Could his wife or girlfriend have perpetrated some payback on the Mayor? If they did, it’s perfect!
doesn’t that girl have a mother and father that should be helping her get a different career? yikes almighty. i am so glad i got through high school without twitter and facebook.
maybe this is the face of the new republican party? lesbo S&M and pornstar tweets. hey even that gal down in louisiana thought the party was getting hip enough for her and she is a pornstar……..?
Just want to clarify something, since there seems to be some confusion.
On Facebook, you can have to approve people who send you friend requests.
On Twitter, if your account is public (instead of “locked” – ie, only viewable by those you choose), people can follow you and you can follow people without any confirmation.
A “favorited” tweet on Twitter is one that the user chooses to mark (there’s a little star icon on the right side of every tweet in your timeline – it’s sort of like bookmarking). When you look at a user’s favorite list, you’re looking at tweets (generally from other people, but you can favorite your own, too) that the user actively marked.
To be fair, it IS possibly to hit the star icon and not really notice you’ve done it (though it does turn yellow), as it’s right above the “reply” and “retweet” options on an individual tweet. If you’re new to Twitter or not paying attention to what you’re doing, I suppose you could mark it and not realize it. (IMO, though, if he hired someone to write his tweets for him, you’d think he’d hire someone who actually KNOWS Twitter. I don’t know, I’m just saying.)
Regardless of intent (or lack thereof), why would you favorite that tweet anyway? It’s not like there’s any reason to remember it.
Uh, Dan, just how much do you think your wife can take?
I’m sorry–but when are the voters going to get rid of this toad?
What next? A Press conference, with Sullivan apologizing for the party planner, the barmaids, and the fave tweet – with a long-suffering, silent wife at his side? It is the Republican way.
My hometown, Ft. Wayne, IN certainly has changed since I shook off the Hoosier dust 25 years ago. Sounds like things are jumping a bit more than I remember. Frank Burns is turning in his grave.
I doubt if Sullivan could make that kind of commute even if he were so inclined.
I had a good laugh when you and Shannyn were talking about his Favorite “tweetheart” on air. Sullied must have been listening to the show, because his “tweetheart” sure did get removed fast. What a twit he is, and her tweets sure are racey. hahahahaha, looks like he got caught when his pants down.
GAH!! Ew. What is wrong with this man?
@Leota2: I’m sorry–but when are the voters going to get rid of this toad?
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when he quits!
Oopsy!
Someone might want to check the mayor’s city credit card (or PayPal?) statements for payments starting Jan. 24. It seems he may be dumb enough to have made some inappropriate business charges.
E in New England explained it really well. Facebook is not twitter and the two are entirely separate entities.
If you want to follow someone on twitter, you make a choice to do so and their twitters start showing up on your page. (click to follow kind of thing) If you don’t want them there, then you Unfollow them. This isn’t even close to be rocket science.
I betcha the party planner was a mistake too.
Politicians and their mistakes, please, I’m so tired of that old excuse, lets try to find a new one or at least something semi believeable.
For instance – whoa, had a really fun night, too many brooskies and it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Now that, I’d be more apt to believe, but then the politician would have to admit to over indulging and that is just probably not going to happen either.
I’ve updated the post, and hopefully clarified a bit about Twitter. Either that or I’ve made it more complicated….
I have a twittering lesson for those of you who have asked. Now E in New England @5:55 pm did a good job explaining things quickly, I have a few things to add.
As E in New England said,
1) Anyone can decide to “follow” a public twit (I’m a public twit, BTW). Only the public twit himself/herself can choose to “follow” another public twit.
However, this has nothing to do with following someone, it’s about favoriting a specific tweet.
2) A simple click of a highlighted star symbol next to ANYONE’S tweet will mark ANYONE’S tweet as one of your favorites.
But I can’t see anyone “mistaking” the highlighted star as some sort of delete.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to delete someone else’s tweet! Can. Not. Be. Done! I’ve noticed that at MayorSullivan’s twittering twat page that someone has already used the excuse of: Oops, hit the wrong button and I really meant to delete it.
WRONG!!!! Can’t be done. Period.
In order to “favorite” someone else’s tweet, you must have been READING their tweets. No if’s, and’s, or but(t)’s about it.
You can “unfavorite” the tweet, but in order to that you must have “favorited” the tweet first.
This means that either Mayor Sullivan or one of his “senior staff” (that’s what it says on his twittering twat page) MUST have been reading the tweets from Bree Olson.
Shall we look into Ms. Olson? –don’t worry, my wife wasn’t in the room when I researched her. The following may or may not be NSFW depending on where you work.
As you all know by now, she is a modern pornstar. Blonde, brown-eyed, fairly cute, light-skinned. Her twitter page is VERY active. And it’s definitely NSFW (are you listening Anchorage Mayor’s Office????)
At least she doesn’t seem to go for the type of stuff that the RNC likes. No b*nd*g*, not much l*sb**n. But in order to enlighten you to what either Mayor Dan Sullivan (or one of his “senior staff”) likes in their workday pornstar perusing… She likes guys. As in lots of guys. Several at a time. And they certainly shouldn’t have the same skin pigment as she does –the darker, the better. Oh, and what’s that wrestling phrase? No holds barred? Just substitute holes for holds. The guys should also be very well-endowed.
What does THAT tell you about either Mayor Dan Sullivan or the “senior staff” he employs? Perhaps they are jealous? Envious?
Oh, AKMuckraker, feel free to delete or edit this comment, no worries
AKDave, I’ve actually used your explanation in my update. Well… not all of it.
Thanks. And if you get in trouble with Mrs. Dave, I will explain how you were taking one for the team. AKM
So, what exactly was she doing on his Twitter feed in the first place? What the hell is going on in city hall anyway. First the party planner gets her own office, and a nice payout, and a little “Dan” on the side. Now he’s having to unfollow porn stars? And he can’t even do that right… Sheesh.
This guy is an asshat.
In case there was any doubt left.
I want a new mayor.
Now.
There is almost no way this was an accident. Here’s what would have to happen for this to have been an accident:
1. Horny Bree Olson (HBO) would have to choose to “follow” Our Horny Mayor (OHM) on Twitter.
2. OHM would then receive an automated email from Twitter to notify him that HBO is interested in his Tweets.
3. OHM would then have to open the email, and click on the link to HBO’s twitter page (which shows all of her tweets).
4. At this point, OHM would now be viewing HBO’s twitter page. Mayor Sullivan would be viewing a LARGE PHOTO of a scantily clad Bree, from the rear, buttocks largely exposed, her face neatly hidden by the Twitter frame. Totally impersonal. There are dirty, filthy, dirty words almost everywhere. She updates her tweets frequently. He would see that she is a poor speller, but a hell of a PARTY PLANNER. His eyes would light up now.
4. Now, there is no delete button on the Twitter page OHM is viewing. But there is a link to FAVORITE HBO’s tweets, or MESSAGE HBO, or BLOCK her or REPORT her for spam. Due to her choice of colors, all of these selections are difficult to read–pink text on a pink background. Alternatively, OHM could have clicked on a star located next to one of HBO’s steamy tweets.
5. The FAVORITE link is separated by about 1/2″ from the other choices. Mayor Sullivan clicked this link. He did not report her as spam, he did not block her, he did not (well, actually we have no way of knowing) if he tried to message her. He designated her, or one of her tweets, as a favorite. In fact, he designated her, or one of her steamy tweets, as his ONLY favorite.
6. Mayor Sullivan would then have to LEAVE IT ALONE. Who knows how long Bree was his only favorite. Maybe it was weeks–we don’t know. We do not that he used the account yesterday morning at 9:46am, and the day before that at 2:39pm. Did Mrs. Sullivan see it? Is she on Twitter? Senior Staff (SS) said “Re: erroneous setting. Honest mistake. Hit wrong button in attempt to delete. (ss)”. It’s not a setting, Senior Staff. And you there is no delete, Senior Staff. That makes me wonder…Is Senior Staff just a tip of the cap, a nod, a wink– from our Mayor to Bree–an approval if you will, of her pet name for him? Senior Staff. If you catch my drift…
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Could this twit be using his gov’t paid for city cell phone to be twitting such adult orinted material???
Sounds like an ethics inquiry could be coming up?
no pun intended there….you betcha!!!
hahahahha oh dear.
OT but I’ve been meaning to share this ever since the whole Palin “Real American stories” debacle.
If you want to see real Americans and be inspired by their stories, I recommend watching the show “Undercover Boss”. Americans from all backgrounds, trying to make an honest living and CEOs trying to get a better understanding of their company and employees. I enjoy it a lot and every episode has humbled me and reminded me of just how wonderful life can be when we embrace people from all walks of life.
What Palin misses is that normal everyday Americans just want to work hard, provide from their families and just do the best they can for themselves. They don’t need platitudes or stupid bumper sticker slogans. They don’t need idiotic talking points and silly political stunts. They need public servants and their employers to help them with solutions that make sense and is actually in their best interest.
A lot of people on Undercover Boss have difficult circumstances, family life or health issues but they are so positive, so thankful and so full of hope and passion, no matter what they do for a living. It’s truly amazing to see and share briefly in their stories. They don’t have fame, celebrity and they work hard every day. Palin misses the humanity of Americans. She stokes only fear and hate. You see people in awe of her but I want to ask them – why are you admiring someone who makes you angry and full of hate & resentment for your fellow Americans?
Aussiegal: I love that show!
As for Dan’s favorite tweet, has anyone ever noticed that the more overtly crooked they are, the is an equivalent covert slime going on?
@2 LMD: There are more comments below, so this may be redundant, but regarding Facebook, I am aware (as a very recent user) that there are always two steps to becoming a “friend”. One party requests it, and the other party has to approve it.
I’m aware of this because I found that I got a whole bunch of friend requests from “friends” of the small number of folks I originally contacted. I’m guessing that this may have happened automatically, but I am not an FB expert.
I hope that they weren’t insulted that I declined their requests, but I have no idea who they are.
I have zero idea how Twitter works, and with any luck will die before I find out.
OMG! $arah’s Producer on her Discovery Channel program is now a suspect in the murder of his wife in Cancun! She’s pallin’ around with wife killers now? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100408/ap_en_ce/lt_mexico_producer_s_wife
@AKMuckraker Gosh, shucks… now I’m blushing…
Just to sum up: there is ONLY ONE WAY for http://www.twitter.com/MayorSullivan to have a tweet from the hardcore pornstar Bree Olson in his favorites. Someone who has access to that account (according to his twit page it’s either him or a member of his senior staff) was reading the tweets of Ms Bree Olson and marked that tweet as a favorite. There is no option to delete another twits tweet. And when you are reading another twits tweets, their ENTIRE PAGE AND ALL THEIR RECENT TWEETS are right there on your screen.
So… How much of the $193,000 did the Mayor spend on internet porn site memberships?
…Sully owns a bar, does he not ??… any Police Blotter items for his establishment concerning his employees’s activities ?? just thinking about a number of his recent escapades,,,and wondering if there are some similar incidents at his place of business… there are bars…… and then there are Bars…
Disturbing video over at Huffington Post of Al Barette, the guy nominated to the board of Game by the Gov. He is skinning a wolf and justifying his behavior with his belief in Genesis. Another religious fundamentalist nut job from S’error’s Alaska.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/08/al-barette-alaska-board-o_n_531211.html
Thanks for the lessons everybody. I think that I shall stay away from twitter and facebook for now. I have friends who have invited me to be a facebook friend but I just don’t feel comfortable with that much personal info out there. And I am so addicted to mudflats that where would I possibly find the time for all of that?
AS to the mayor of Anchorage? Is this what you are paying him for? To say nothing of his $193,000 bonus and being paid before he took office. Is this what is considered to be fiscally responsible?
Then I hear that our state legislators have approved a budget that would put back in a lot of the things that Sarah vetoed with her red crayon last year. Now Parnell is digging in his box of crayons “Now where is that red one?”
Gosh- it sure does make one’s head spin.
AKM-do you happen to know whom to have out of state people write to regarding boycotting tourism in Alaska due to the wolf killing issue? Should they write Parnell or someone else?
Does anyone remember who the group was that suggested this boycott in the first place?
Ooops-sorry-off topic-it’s off to the open thread that I go.
Has any local Anchorage-ite ever seen if your new mayor has a lobotomy scar? I’m just sayin’….
lovemydogs,
It was Defenders of Wildlife who suggested the boycott first, concerning the aerial killing of wildlife in Alaska.
TexasMom (#40)
I don’t know if that’s the producer or not… The last sentence in that article isn’t very clear, but it looks as if Mark Burnett is the producer – that Bruce what’s his name (the “alleged suspect”) used to work for him.
So, dunno.
I’d say Dan Sullivan pulled a boner
So, let me see if I understand this correctly…
1) A Twitter account is either open or locked. Open is for everyone to read; locked is only for some (‘invited guests’?) to read.
IOW, I can *read* anyone’s tweets, say, Mickey Mouse’s (just like I can read any website) unless Mickey only allows certain/selected people to read/follow them (sort of like a business has a ‘restricted to employees only’ website/web section.)
2) If I’m reading Mickey’s tweets and see he’s gotten a tweet from Minnie Mouse, I can choose to ‘follow’ Minnie, too, if I like what she tweets/writes (sort of like I can follow a link from this site to another site…and decide that that second/linked site is one I’d like to also read regularly.)
OK – so far, so good… I think.
What has me a tad confused is: If I decide to ‘follow’ either Mickey or Minnie, do I have to “star” them or can I ‘lurk’ on their accounts and just read their tweets *without* making a commitment [for lack of a better phrase...] by clicking on the star to ‘favorite’ them?
Too, if I’m also reading/following Goofy and I see that Donald Duck has made a tweet to him [to The Goofster] can I ‘favorite’ Don from Gs page/account, by ‘starring’ Don’s tweet?
What’s the difference between one you’re just ‘following’ and one you’ve selected/’starred’ as a “favorite”?
Oh, my, I do believe my age is showing. Since I don’t Twitter, YES!, this would fall into the category of “teaching old dogs new tricks.” Greatest thanks to those willing (or foolish enough!) to take on the task of doing so. beth.
[I've actually no intent of *ever* Twittering, but I surely don't want show my ignorance of what's going on around me by not knowing *how* it works. Vanity and foolish pride in still being perceived by young whipper-snappers as 'capable', I suppose...
b.]
Mayor Sullivan was NOT visting Fort Wayne. He was hiking the Appalachian Trail.
like Ripley, i need to bleach my eyeballs….. tweets? twitter? Politicians need to stop tweeting and twittering. it’s embarrassing. it’s juvenile. what the the hell are they doing tweeting when they can’t seem to answer their constituents questions directly and personally in a timely manner? that should be the question here. where is the contract that said that people of Anchorage owed this man and his family one red cent? i am really disgusted with the apathy and just plain ignorance of the average voter. if this idiot has time to even have a twitter tweet account then obviously he doesn’t have a damn thing to do.he’s got plenty of time to do absolutely nothingto do. while he is doing nothing but tweeting who then is running your city?
Why on earth did the fair people ever elect this slimy, self aggrandizing, womanizer? Wow.
WHOA! Check out the *date* of the favorited tweet: 24 January.
Let’s see, [goes into rhyme: "30 days hath September, April, June, and Novem..."] today is *at least* 70 days after Ms Bree was ‘starred.’ Hmmm… When was this little lapse in judgment discovered? AKA when [what date] did Sully send out his ‘honest mistake’ tweet? beth.
@Beth 9:17 pm Your first two: spot on mate, no worries.
You then start getting confused (as you said). The confusion arises cus of the “follow” vs “favorite” terminology. When you “follow” someone on twitter, you get to read all their tweets. So far so good. However, “favorite” refers to a single, specific tweet from a twitterer –that’s the highlighted star thingy that someone in Mayor Dan’s office clicked on while s/he was surfing adult sites on the mayor’s twitter account.
I personally don’t “favorite” any one, single tweet, but that’s just me. I follow the tweets of 17 other twitterers –alaskan bloggers, cyclists, aussie bloggers, news stuff– and forty some odd folks have decided to “follow” me so my tweets are “fed” directly to them.
Did that help? Or did I confuse you more?
@Beth, my guess is that one of his henchblokes starred it way back and then no one (not a single one of us) even bothered to look at his list of favorites. Till now, that is. His “honest mistake” *cough BULLSH!T* tweet came out 7 hours ago –hmmm, right after the story broke…
Honestly, how did this guy ever get elected? Did people who are smart and reasonable decided to just not vote?
I’m on Twitter and Facebook – more on facebook since I don’t tweet from my phone. I’d actually forgotten that I’d signed up for Twitter. I can’t remember why I did, in fact.
But facebook has been a good way to keep in touch with some friends and relatives who live farther away. Yes, we could e-mail, but then it’s a conversation between just the two of us, while on facebook, all my other friends can join in the conversation – that part has been fun. Hubby is even on facebook now, though he hardly ever posts anything – he just checks to see what everyone else is doing.
It was my Dutch friend who kept bugging me to join facebook. And as it turns out, my youngest daughter is much bettter at checking facebook (meaning she actually gets messages from the rest of us) than she is at checking her phone messages or even e-mail. Go figure. So I’ve used it a lot more in the last 6 months.
The main difference that I see, for those who aren’t sure they want to go there, is that you have more control with facebook. Set everything to friends only if you really don’t want others reading your posts. You can also do what my one daughter did and sign up with your first and middle names only. You only have to give as much information as you want. It took me a while before I included my high school, college, etc. But I still don’t list my address or phone number. And I like that someone can’t start reading your facebook until you confirm them.
Twitter, however, can also be set to more private settings. I did that for a while because I was getting “followers” who weren’t people I wanted following me, nor did I want to read what they were selling. (Nothing like Bree Olson, but insurance, health food, and that sort of thing. So now I make sure I check every once in a while to see if someone has started following me that I don’t know. I promptly block them. I’ve NEVER “accidentally turned their tweet into a favorite by clicking on that star. I don’t think it takes a genius to not make that mistake.
So, that tells you about Mayor Dan – either he’s inept when it comes to Twitter or he’s really bad at hiring people who are reliable.
AKM, thanks for the warning. That was scummy stuff indeed. Yuk.
I’m sooo confuuused! At my age, I think I’ll choose to not tweet any twaddle.
@57 Pat WA-
Yes, I do the same thing w/ my Twitter. Check out new followers and promptly block undesirables. Works much better than having a locked account for me.
Ewww. I really think it’s time for a recall of your mayor. Too many signs of corruption and mismanagement in such a short time. I notice the “erroneous” Tweet was posted “two hours ago via the web” in response to the original January tweet. Well that fixes everything now doesn’t it. Pfft. Mayor Sullivan and/or his IT people are completely inept.
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@Pat, Washington state – But facebook has been a good way to keep in touch with some friends and relatives who live farther away. Yes, we could e-mail, but then it’s a conversation between just the two of us, while on facebook, all my other friends can join in the conversation – that part has been fun.
This is what I like especially about Facebook. So far, I’ve had no problems with privacy issues or having unwanted people added to my friend list without my consent. And I confess, Farmville is my guilty pleasure. (Blush)
I can really understand how a newbie could mistake the favoriting star for one of those little “close” exes that appear in the upper right hand corner of ads, pages, etc. It’s very funny, but Sullivan’s only guilty of newness.
At 72..I have chosen..my one landline (NO cell)..and one email listing. I ‘listen’..to those around me..who have/do..or did..use the assorted ..’braincase-flash-entry’..methods..to..communicate with others. I miss nothing of real value..in my view..from being where the fresh air, unlimiting vistas..are avail. and free. Nuggets of information..can be reached for/picked up..and..delt with..throughout my day. Given..that is my comfort zone..I view the those who chose to ‘pipe’..wads of ..assorted words IN….to look much like the volcanic dust-encrusted victims ..of Pompeii..forever ‘caught’..in a haze of verbage..their Own..creative efforts..stilled, stifled..and thus, now only an endless..echo..of whattheysaidwhattheysaidwhattheysa………
Honest mistake my a$$, only did he remove his favorite Twit after you and Shannyn pointed it out. lmao, Sully, you just got sullied. Isn’t there some kind of “mandation” for what he continues to do? hahaha, I know that sentence makes no sense, but neither does he or Missy Quittypants.
There is no hopey and changey in their future.
Alaskan Dave Down Under @ 56 ~
Yes, thank you. Great help. As I said, I don’t Twitter.
I have a FB account but rarely, rarely, rarely visit it. It’s marked “private”, but still, I’m just not all that into sharing info with folks thru that format. I probably shouldn’t be this way, but it just bugs me that what started out as a good way for univ-age folks to keep in touch with their peers, turned into a post-MySpace-aged free-for-all…and then morphed into a plain old free-for-all for everyone. When politicians jumped on the bandwagon, that was it for me…yes, it’s a great way to reach a zillion people, but, eeew!
Every time I sign on, I feel like I’ve surreptitiously put on my college backpack and my college mascot-themed sweatshirt in hopes that no one will find out I’m no longer in college…and haven’t been for more than twice the number of years than college-aged kids are old. And the ‘friends’ bit (although I know it’s meant to keep prying eyes out of places they’re not supposed to be prying in) reminds me –sorry, can’t help it– of ‘cliques’ and invite-only clubs/frats/sororities. The whole FB thing just creeps me out. I know, I’m odd that way.
For people who enjoy using FB, more power to them…for me, it’s plain old iccky. To the max. beth.
I wanna see tweets between “Dandy Dan” and the party planning wench !!
party planners & porn ~ a Sullied Tiger tale?
Sure he made an honest mistake, in accidentally making his viewing habits public! The bottom line is he (or someone with access to his account) had to be viewing the lovely BreeOlson’s page to have ‘favorited’ her tweet.
Now, I get ‘fake’ followers to my twitter page all the time, but you can choose to accept/deny them. Usually they are ‘fishing’ attempts by someone masquerading as an attractive woman to lure the unsuspecting chump to a p0rn site. Looks like Dan was caught, hook line and sinker!
(Oh, and sorry for all the puns. I must be punished now)
Some people are just not technologically competent enough to use Twitter.
I’ll just leave it at that.
I don’t use my Twitter account very often except to read (meaning I post infrequently, but follow many people, usually news/commentary types) to I get quickie updates of hot topics.
The thing about tweets, however, is you don’t get tweets UNLESS you are already following them, so unless Mayor Dan, or someone using his account, has decided to follow Bree Olson, those tweets wouldn’t have shown up on his page to get starred in the first place! For example, I follow Mudflats, so get Mudflats’s tweets, but she doesn’t follow me, so when I do tweet, she does not get mine. Only the people who have chosen to follow me get my tweets.
In other words:
Follower – someone following a public account
Follow – people whose tweets show up on my page
Tweet – 140 character or less message received only by my followers
Favorite – an individual tweet that I particularly liked and want to save to file (will have a yellow star beside it from now on)
Delete button – only works on your own tweets
Someone who lives in Anchorage needs to file an ethics complaint on this sleezeball! Did anyone notice that he is using the PUBLIC muni.org website? He’s very likely also using a public computer since he’s such a cheapskate that he doesn’t have his own. Disgusting.
This is actually good news.
It will be far cheaper for Anchorage if Dan Sullivan spends his time tweeting “adult” stars instead of: 1) collecting the Mayor’s salary before he’s Mayor, 2) collecting $193k without fully disclosing his conflict of interest, and 3) awarding sole source contracts (funded by tax dollars) to his party planner mistress.
Remember when we had whorehouses every few blocks here, even as recent as 20 years ago? Mayor Dan grew up in that environment. Not making excuses – just saying “repuglican values” included active and open solicitation, prostitution, exotic dancing, escort services, massage parlors, whatever you want to call it…
Then, about 20 years ago the houses of ill repute suddenly reduced in number – I don’t remember what might have been a cause except the pipeline was complete – the workers went back to their trailer parks in the Lower48.
Dave: thanks for clarifying me.
AKM: You cleared it up nicely – I wasn’t sure I was making sense! The visual aids definitely help.
Is it weird that seeing my name in a post made my day, even if I was just trying to explain Twitter?
Why are politicians (of any stripe) doing the twitter thing anyway? Don’t they have enough to handle for the public that they need FB & Twitter, a la Palin? I wouldn’t read something about policy, etc. that wasn’t carefully laid out, something you truly cannot do on FB and Twitter because of their gossipy nature and personal thrust (no pun intended).
Sometimes all the new “innovations” do is to trivialize everything. Any idiot can use them, even if they don’t “understand” them. Looks and popularity will take over the most serious of issues and reduce them to chatter, much like the Whore of Babble-on resorted to after she quit AK. Is this really what we want for this country? If someone can’t take 5 minutes to think out a carefully crafted statement or response, or simply engage in trivialities, why bother with them?
It’s probable that he just hit the star not knowing what it does. That said, the senior staff’s “explanation” is just a plain lie.