Tag Archive for: ALEC

Was Trump bitten by Twitter time-stamp bug that stung Alec Baldwin’s wife?

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The answer is almost certainly no, but …

If you’ve been following the political news today, one joyously mocked aspect of Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant early this morning has been that one of the tweets was apparently sent at 3:20 a.m.

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I say apparently – despite the clearly visible 3:20 a.m. time-stamp – because Twitter time-stamps have been known to go haywire in the past, sometimes causing problems, such as when the bug made it appear that Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria had tweeted idle pleasantries during the June 2013 funeral of Sopranos star James Gandolfini. Hilaria had done no such thing, but erroneous reports to the contrary sparked by the bug caused her husband to blow a gasket.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Twitter’s timestamp bug, Alec Baldwin and me

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This morning I had my own encounter with a supposedly eradicated Twitter timestamp bug that once was responsible for sending the notoriously boorish actor Alec Baldwin into a homophobic rant over a newspaper allegation, later proven untrue, that his wife Hilaria had tweeted idle pleasantries while attending the funeral of Sopranos star James Gandolfini.

Nothing the least bit dramatic occurred as a result of my run-in with the bug – unless head-scratching counts — but the bug has not been eradicated, despite Twitter claims to the contrary, and how could I resist writing this post after a Google search on “Twitter timestamp wrong” turned up such a star-studded result. (Heck, they’d drum me out of the bloggers’ union if there was a bloggers’ union.)

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Network World Paul McNamara

Google withdraws from conservative lobbyist service ALEC, citing climate change

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Weeks after more than 50 activist groups publicly called upon Google to end its affiliation with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a controversial nonprofit that helps representatives from corporations meet privately with legislators, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced on an NPR program this week that the company has withdrawn its support.

Google’s affiliation with ALEC came to light just over a year ago in a Daily Beast article, and has been a source of criticism of the company in the time since. ALEC is publicly opposed to net neutrality and municipal broadband, and its work is believed to have helped the companies pushing against these efforts get support from lawmakers.

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Network World Colin Neagle