David Swann; Hip or not so much?

Dr. David Swann, leader of the Alberta Liberal Party tweeted this today.

What do you think? Is this a lame attempt to be "in" with the youth of Alberta? Does he know what it means? Does he even do his own tweeting?

Log your thoughts by voting on the poll to the right or post a comment.

BTW: this post is meant to be fun. :)

Edwin Erickson a little infatuated perhaps?

At around 10:30 PM (yesterday now) I noticed a new member on Twitter, WAPwatch. At first I thought it might be my old internet friend resurrected. But alas, it is not. My old nemesis would have been a little bit smarter and I would not have been able to figure out the real identity so quickly.


Here are two screen shots taken at the same time. You will see the first posts of WAPwatch. (made at 8:23 PM. according to Tweetdeck)

And here you will see his followers. (Note: I have blocked out the other follower from the screenshot at their request, as they are no longer following)

You will note that the first follower, Edwin Erickson started following WAPwatch a full four hours before the first tweet. Before even one Tweet with any hash tags was posted.  The only way he could have known about the account and started following it before any tweets, was if he (or a cohort) created it.

Since then Edwin Erickson, I mean WAPwatch has been going through all of my followers and has started to follow them.

I suspect by morning WAPwatch will also be following everyone I am following.  Interesting that he chose pink for a background color. Presumably to lead one to believe it was a woman. Or maybe Edwin really does like pink.

Editted to add:
Joanne points out in the comments that this timestamp is of his last Tweet. And I stand corrected; I took it to be the follow time. Nonetheless, clearly he was the first on the bandwagon of this unusual twitter'er. I see this morning the following list is a mirror image of those following me.

Edited to add:
You will no longer find me on his list as I have now blocked him. I recommend my family do the same.

Vows and other things.....

Just returned home from my son's wedding. It was a beautiful early evening event on the rooftop of a building in downtown. The sun came streaming out for one last gasp at just the right moment. Even a little breeze whipping up the brides dress was well timed. Later in the evening guests enjoyed dancing with the Calgary Tower as a backdrop.


On another note, Diane Colley-Urquhart has replied on Twitter, that she will be providing commentary here on my blog in response to fellow "Twitterers" (or is it Twits? LOL).

While she is at it I invite her to check out a fellow bloggers post here. It seems a question has come up in the comments with regards to her current status with the Human Rights Commission, that she could clarify.