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Tweet

The name given to a post on Twitter.

# tweet-2 - Friday 26 April, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Internet Firsts

11 internet firsts you probably never heard of

The first photo ever uploaded to the internet, the first registered domain name… let’s step back into the internet’s history.

# tweet-2 - Tuesday 23 April, 2013

From The Score Twitter

Thatcher tweet sees Irish cricket star banned for 3 matches

John Mooney quickly apologised for the ‘derogatory’ message about the former British PM.

# tweet-2 - Thursday 4 April, 2013

Embarrassed politician accidentally tweets porn link

Morto for Rob Wilson, UK Conservative MP.

# tweet-2 - Wednesday 13 March, 2013

# tweet-2 - Monday 25 February, 2013

From TheJournal.ie GE11

Tweeting the election: How one TD really saw the 2011 campaign

Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin kept a diary recording all his tweets – and what he really thought – throughout the 2011 election campaign. Two years on from the election, he shares some of them for the first time.

# tweet-2 - Monday 28 January, 2013

Whoops

Official Police Tweet of the Day

Morto for the Dallas Police Department.

# tweet-2 - Thursday 24 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Micro-video

Twitter unveils new 6-second video app called Vine

The new feature allows users to take short looping videos which can be shared on social media.

# tweet-2 - Saturday 19 January, 2013

From The Score Controversy

‘Dembele’s not good enough’ – How I became public enemy number one on Twitter

How one tweet opened up a new side of Twitter that Paul Fennessy had never experienced before.

# tweet-2 - Saturday 5 January, 2013

From The Score Bandwagon

Kobe Bryant joins Twitter, gains 432,235 followers in 22 hours

The LA Lakers star lost out to the Clippers last night and is still 6m followers behind LeBron James.

# tweet-2 - Wednesday 26 December, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Review 2012

Here are our top 10 most tweeted articles in 2012

From Maeve Binchy to the fatal Swedish House Mafia concert, these are TheJournal.ie stories which were shared the most on Twitter this year.

# tweet-2 - Friday 14 December, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Happy Tweetmas

Christmas tweets to light up old Dublin flour mill

AOL is inviting people to send festive tweets, the most popular of which will be projected onto the side of Boland’s Mill in the Grand Canal Dock.

# tweet-2 - Wednesday 28 November, 2012

From The Score Campo

Former Wallaby legend Campese slammed for rant about female sportswriters

The goose-stepping rugby star has been putting out fires (with tweets) ever since.

# tweet-2 - Wednesday 21 November, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Scribere

Vatican launches new Latin-teaching academy… with a tweet

Cardinal who heads up the academy is an avid tweeter and promoted his new project by tweeting in Latin.

# tweet-2 - Wednesday 7 November, 2012

The most popular tweet of all time

Four more years. Half-a-million retweets.

# tweet-2 - Sunday 30 September, 2012

From TheJournal.ie BNP

MEP Nick Griffin says he will not apologise for ‘Fenian’ comment on Twitter

Griffin hit out at republicans after he received “vast amounts” of abuse on his Twitter feed.

# tweet-2 - Friday 28 September, 2012

From The Score Tweet

Ferdinand: “The footage doesn’t lie”

QPR defender breaks his silence about the events of the past few months.

# tweet-2 - Tuesday 4 September, 2012

From The Score Tension

Button ‘disappointed’ with Lewis Hamilton over leaked team data

Hamilton posted the tweet after Saturday’s qualifying session for the Belgian GP.

# tweet-2 - Thursday 23 August, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Hoax

Twitter agrees to block fake Indian PM accounts

The government asked Twitter to take down the accounts because they risked increasing ethnic and religious tension.

# tweet-2 - Friday 17 August, 2012

From The Score Embarrassing

Here’s your awkward Robin van Persie pic of the day

The striker today implied Man United were his boyhood club. But then this unfortunate photo emerged.

From The Score Punishment

Rio Ferdinand fined over ‘choc ice’ tweet

The player will be forced to pay €57,000 for improper conduct over comments he made on Twitter.

# tweet-2 - Thursday 16 August, 2012

From The Score Experience

Clarke, McGinley and Bjorn named as European Ryder Cup vice-captains

A fourth assistant will by named by José María Olazábal on 27 August when he reveals his two wildcard picks.

# tweet-2 - Tuesday 14 August, 2012

From The Score There Goes My Hero

Tributes from football legends, teammates and Green Army flood in for retiring Given

Sean St Ledger was gutted to hear of the Donegal man’s retirement and called him ‘an unbelievable goalkeeper’.

# tweet-2 - Monday 6 August, 2012

From The Score Probe

Gardaí to probe racism claim from Man City player following banana throwing incident

Gael Clichy made the allegation on his Twitter account, saying it was ‘sad to see’.

# tweet-2 - Saturday 4 August, 2012

From The Score Follow Saturday

‘Job done, from the Olympic ring’: Barnes tweets seconds after boxing win

The Belfast man is giving Flloyd Mayweather Jr a run for his money as a personality and a self-promoter

# tweet-2 - Thursday 2 August, 2012

Picture this: Iran’s supreme leader has joined Instagram

The supreme leader of Iran, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has thrown caution to the wind and joined the photo-sharing site.

# tweet-2 - Saturday 28 July, 2012

Twitterverse This post contains images

Tweet Sweeper: Paul Galvin is worried for low-flying ducks

You’ve seen him laugh. You’ve seen him cry. But have you ever seen him tweet about Geordie Shore?

# tweet-2 - Friday 27 July, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: The Twitter joke trial shows freedom of speech has to include comedy

It doesn’t matter if comedy is offensive or upsetting – free speech must allow for all speech, writes Simon Carty.

From TheJournal.ie Failwhale This post contains a poll

Twitter explains why the site went down yesterday

Twitter suffered its second outage in five weeks yesterday, with users unable to access the site for a couple of hours. Did it affect you?

# tweet-2 - Saturday 16 June, 2012

Whales, legs and Big Ben – the best inanimate objects on Twitter

Tired of celebrities? Here’s what these inanimate objects have to say about the world.

# tweet-2 - Wednesday 13 June, 2012

From The Score Tough Ask

Ireland’s Call – Part Two: Put your questions to the Irish team in New Zealand

Get in touch with us to put your most searching queries to captain Brian O’Driscoll and coach Declan Kidney.

# tweet-2 - Friday 8 June, 2012

From The Score Biggest Fan

Summer Tour Diary: Tweets from Amy and McFadden orders an ‘Irish coffee’

Brian O’Driscoll’s wife is cheering him on from afar, the Irish players miss Maxwell House and Kiwis remind us again that we have never beaten them.

# tweet-2 - Wednesday 6 June, 2012

From The Score Ask The Experts

Ireland’s Call: Put your question to Declan Kidney and Brian O’Driscoll in New Zealand

We are giving you the opportunity to put your best comment forward to the Irish rugby team days before they face the All Blacks.

# tweet-2 - Tuesday 5 June, 2012

From The Score Euro 2012

Different strokes: ‘common sense’ prevailing over Twitter policy

Denmark appear to be the only team to have held a firm social networking ban in place.

# tweet-2 - Saturday 2 June, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Referendum This post contains images

In pictures: Twitter’s reaction to #EURef

How the Twittersphere reacted to Ireland’s decision to vote Yes in the Fiscal Compact referendum…

# tweet-2 - Monday 28 May, 2012

From The Score London Ho!

It’s official: Hazard confirms that he will sign for Chelsea

The tweet came late but fans of the Champions League winners will be delighted nonetheless.

From The Score Euro 2012

I’ll be seeing you: Fabregas hit the social network to declare Euro 2012 fitness

The Spanish midfielder says he will be ready to play Italy on 10 June and Ireland four days later.

# tweet-2 - Friday 13 April, 2012

From The Score All Flak

‘Get a life’: Piri Weepu hits back at fans accusing him of gaining weight

The All Black and Auckland Blues scrum-half has copped some flak on Twitter for his side’s poor Super 15 start

# tweet-2 - Sunday 8 April, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Government Deathwish

Flanagan’s ‘government deathwish’ tweet criticised by Labour TD

A tweet from Fine Gael chairman Charlie Flanagan in which he asked had the Social Protection Minister “a government deathwish” has been criticised by Labour TD Colm Keaveney.

# tweet-2 - Saturday 31 March, 2012

From The Score Tweet On

Tweet dreams: Irish Olympic athletes free to use Twitter at London 2012

Pat Hickey knows what a London Bus looks like but, by the looks of it, he prefers vintage technology.

# tweet-2 - Wednesday 28 March, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Anti-social Network

It’s not just you: Twitter admits ‘unfollowing bug’

Twitter acknowledged today that there is a bug which causes Twitter users to randomly unfollow people and said its team of engineers is working to fix it.

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