Credit: Brad Gregg Well, technically, the OU football coach has been on it for some time now, but his account was private, so no one could read his tweets unless Stoops said they could (yeah, he was one of those). Stoops becomes the second head OU football coach to join the popular social networking site, […]
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Dr. Phil gets schooled
On Aug. 20, one of Dr. Phil McGraw’s staff published this tweet: “If a girl is drunk, is it ok to have sex with her? Reply yes or no to @drphil #teensaccused” McGraw, who was born in Vinita and attended the University of Tulsa, deleted the tweet almost immediately, but the damage had already been […]
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Hey, bulldog
Credit: Brad Gregg The OKC Thunder big man took to the popular social-networking site last week to unload his pup — a rather adorable English bulldog — for the negotiable price of $1,500. “Hey I have a English bulldog and he to big to be around my youngest child he 10 months got his papers […]
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CFN Quote (and Possibly Advertisement) of the Week
Credit: Brad Gregg —Chip Legett, whose Ford truck was tossed more than 100 yards by the storm while he and three friends were in it
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Trashed
Credit: Brad Gregg Monthly active users of Facebook numbered 1.1 billion in May. In only its seventh year of existence, Twitter boasts 640 million accounts and more than 400 million tweets per day. No doubt people are talking. What they have to say and the conversation they create are of supreme importance to businesses. What […]
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In cars
His frustration stems from TV coverage of the EF3 tornado that swept through sections of Central Oklahoma on May 31. That’s when Morgan urged viewers who couldn’t get underground to a shelter to “leave south Oklahoma City and go south. Do it right now.” A little later, Morgan repeated that a tornado warning was in […]
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A tragedy on Twitter
Credit: Shannon Cornman @reedtimmerTVN: STRONG tornado potential again tomorrow (today, Monday afternoon) over much of central and eastern OK!Timmer is a meteorologist and storm chaser. @severestudios: LARGE, VIOLENT tornado moving into S OKC metro. MOORE AREA GET UNDERGROUND NOW! (3:07pm)Severe Studios break severe weather news in Tornado Alley. @dailythunder: This is just the worst.Young is […]
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To catch a crook
Mark Myers Credit: Mark Hancock Such platforms let police elicit realtime crime tips and create a dialogue not possible with traditional media. “It gives the public a chance to have a two-way conversation with us,” said Myers. The OCSO’s Facebook and Twitter accounts have become the most popular of their kind across the nation. According […]
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Mack the strife
The latest manifestation of the Emerald City’s green-eyed monster came today courtesy hip-hopper and Seattle native Macklemore, aka Ben Haggerty. On Twitter, he expressed displeasure that his latest hit song with Ryan Lewis, “Can’t Hold Us,” has been used to energize Oklahoma City Thunder fans at the Chesapeake Energy Arena. “OH HELL NO!” tweeted the […]
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Tweet heat
The March 15 tweet was part of an exchange between Shannon and Mickey Hepner, dean of the college of business administration at the University of Central Oklahoma. After Shannon remarked that Oklahoma would stand against the Affordable Care Act, Hepner tweeted that the Constitution prohibits the state from ignoring federal laws. Shannon replied with a […]