Posts by Tea Makers operative The Tweet Makers

I write the finest in tweet-based Canadian media criticism. Tips and tweets to: tweet.makers@gmail.com

‘Too many CBC Twitter accounts’

July 22, 2009 – 11:45 pm
‘Too many CBC Twitter accounts’

“We had a Facebook page with 400 plus followers, there was zero content on the page,” she wrote in an email “And we said ‘come on,’ what a missed opportunity.”

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Oh Sherry

July 20, 2009 – 7:36 pm
Oh Sherry
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Kam Fong demands we make this clip All-Tube Top Ten

July 20, 2009 – 10:40 am

“Doug” Coupland thinks jPod “never got a chance”!

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Credit where credit is due

July 17, 2009 – 3:53 pm
Credit where credit is due

Wait – is that a CBC Radio iApp?

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BREAKING: Tod Maffin hit by car

July 14, 2009 – 6:54 pm
BREAKING: Tod Maffin hit by car

His helmet is toast!

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And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver. For no mere mortal can resist the evil of the Twitter

July 10, 2009 – 12:15 am
And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver. For no mere mortal can resist the evil of the Twitter

For indeed it is another journey down the Tweethole. @petermansbridg, is that you?

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Tod Maffin takes down list of laid off CBCers

June 4, 2009 – 10:09 am

After plugging the list via his mostly-robotic AboutCBC twitter account with a plea to for it to be passed around, Tod quietly took it down.

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The tweeting wounded

May 28, 2009 – 10:38 am

What was there to be unsure about, luvmuffin? Yesterday was a rotten day. What makes it worse is that when someone is classified as ‘redundant,’ it’s not over yet. If they’re in the union, they get a chance to bump someone out who’s not in the union, or who has less seniority. Just as long [...]

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Hey you! Tech nuts!

May 8, 2009 – 7:39 am

Who you calling tech nuts, Dianne Buckner? Look, I don’t have any time for the Facebook Phenomenon right now. I’m right in the middle of the Tweethole Meltdown. And I’ve a whole bag of tweets to get through before the Amazon buys twitter and teamakers and puts it all on the Big Kindle and behind [...]

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Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster. And when you gaze long into the tweethole, the tweethole also gazes into you

May 1, 2009 – 8:51 am

Social Media Professionals and Nietzsche will tell you that you only get out of social media what you put into it. So it goes without saying that when you make fun of the twitter people, sooner or later you become that which you made fun of. “That site,” my friends, is this site. And noizangel [...]

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Tweethole stimulus package

April 24, 2009 – 8:00 am

Welcome back, web 2.0 social media fans! Unfortunately, there are no twitter blockings to report this week. But we roll in stealth mode these days, ie: not logged in, so we might’ve missed one. If you’re blocking us, or spot a prime tweethole in the wild, be sure to DM @teamakers so we can get [...]

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Twitter

April 14, 2009 – 11:22 am

It’s true that former President Robert Rabinovitch wasn’t exactly a “people person.” Also, he knew nothing about broadcasting. And as a bureaucrat, he got us sweet dick-all from Ottawa. This website busted his balls repeatedly but they were clearly balls that needed busting. The current president, Mr. H. Lacroix, is a different story altogether. I [...]

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Tweets of ill repute

April 10, 2009 – 7:19 am

Good morning, social media fans, and welcome back to opensource happyland. WTF! Blocked! By local television scribe and online diarist Denis McGrath! It’s a heywriterblock! It’s an outrage! What did I ever do to him? Come to think of it, he’s been distant ever since we made fun of his weight. And baldness. And criticized [...]

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CBC.ca goes further down the tweethole

April 7, 2009 – 8:22 am

CBC.ca Arts publishes an embarrassing display of Twitter-based humor. From his photo, author Andre Mayer doesn’t look too old, but he writes gags like he’s 50. Apparently CBC Arts somehow Benjamin Buttonizes its writers. There may be a Brad Pitt survey on this somewhere on the site, but I can’t be bothered to look it [...]

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