Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Courtland Milloy is watching you tweet
Courtland Milloy, coiner of the phrase “myopic little twits” is now on twitter, at @courtland51, and he really just wants to “track millenials & find out if they anything in dc other than party and gentrify.” That means he’s looking for you, DC twitterers, to point him toward Gen X and Millenials who are doing [...]
More »Food Tweet of the Week: Khan’s
In the world of DC restaurants talking about opening for months before they actually do, Twitter has become a way keep potential patrons excited about the food that’s coming soon. At the same time, other establishments wait until almost opening day to start Tweeting incessantly. Khan’s Bar & Grill, which didn’t open until late March, is somewhere in the [...]
More »Food Tweet of the Week: Bourbon Steak
‘Venison, Bourbon Steak’
courtesy of ‘bonappetitfoodie’
Let me just start this by saying that if you haven’t tried Bourbon Steak’s fries yet, please do…but that’s a totally different story.
The restaurant, located in Georgetown’s Four Seasons, hasn’t stopped tweeting since it first logged on back in December 2009. @BourbonSteakDC currently has more than 2,100 followers and tweets about [...]
EXCLUSIVE: The Red Cross’ Rogue Tweeter Talks To We Love DC
As a social media professional, I fully understand the risks of my job. It is a job that doesn’t end after 5 PM or when you walk out of the office. We remain connected at all times through Blackberry devices or iPhones. Yesterday morning my alarm went off and I rolled over to my bed stand for [...]
More »Food Tweet of the Week: Chef Geoff Tracy
’shrimp n grits’
courtesy of ‘@heylovedc’
New (and even old-time) Tweeters can learn a thing or two from Chef Geoff Tracy. With @chegeoffs, Tracy might not hold the record for the most tweets per day, but all the messages he sends out are either informative (specials of the day), enticing (pictures from the kitchen), or funny (as [...]
Food Tweet of the Week: Co Co. Sala
I love following restaurants on Twitter so I can hear about everything from what dishes they’re cooking up, to what events they’re hosting, to what specials they might have coming my way soon. Last week I took a look at how DC restaurants use Twitter successfully. Today I’m happy to award We Love DC’s first [...]
More »Restaurants Love to Cook, Serve & Tweet!
“These days at a restaurant you have plates, tables, food and Twitter.”
-Barcode owner Antonis Karagounis
“People regularly ask for restaurant suggestions from other Tweeps on Twitter. When we are able to find those requests and immediately welcome them to our restaurant, they are floored by the quick response and personalized welcome. We’ve been lucky enough [...]
Dismemberment Plan: a weekend in tweets
When Dismemberment Plan’s “Emergency & I” was first released in 1999, “tweet” was the sound a bird made. This weekend, as they played three reunion shows in our city’s finest venues (check back at 3 for Brittany’s review!), it became an often hilarious and sometimes poignant way for some fans to experience the event. Many [...]
More »Michelle Rhee’s Rumored Resignation and what actually happened today
‘loose lips’
courtesy of ‘amy_b’
Twitter was all abuzz late this afternoon as rumors of a four line resignation email to DCPS staffers spread like wildfire. While Michelle Rhee’s tenure is in question with the election of Vincent Gray, nothing has been written in stone yet, and no announcements concerning her departure had been made.
We Love DC [...]
Historical Facebook Statuses
Historical Facebook Update by Wylo
Although this incredibly entertaining “historical facebook update” is a joke, it definitely once again raises the question, are tweets and Facebook status updates going to one day be considered significant historical artifacts?
Although the Library of Congress is already preparing for this outcome, it remains to be seen whether or not 140 [...]
Library of Congress to Archive Public Tweets
Twestival 3/25/10 by @heylovedc
I have to admit, I don’t tweet. In fact it makes me slightly uncomfortable to say “tweet” unless I’m doing an impression of a baby bird. While I do have a Twitter account, I only use it to follow Andy Roddick and other tennis related people and only when I’m covering a [...]
Twitter Contest: Nissan Leaf Tour
The Nissan Leaf Tour is coming to DC next week so Nissan can show off their new, all-electric, zero-emission* car to one of the most traffic-choked regions in the country during the DC Auto Show. To celebrate, they’ve given us an eco-auto prize pack to give away via Twitter. You can win:
1 – Nissan Leaf [...]
New! Twitter Lists
‘Dropped list.. i’d like some’courtesy of ‘Tyrannous’
We’ve got a new feature to announce here associated with our Twitter Account: Local Lists! We’ve got five to start with, and we’re working on four more. Here are the five we’re announcing today:
We Love DC Food
We Love DC Blogs
We Love DC Sports
We Love DC Music
We [...]
Hero of the Day: Jared Cohen
I’ve watched over the last six days how an election in Iran was wholesale hijacked, how the people revolted, how they circumvented their government’s heavy-handed filtering of the Internet, and how they used social media tools to keep right on going. So, I present to you, a guy who may well have saved lives [...]
More »The DC Food Scene: Twitter Edition
‘Pret lunch…’
courtesy of ‘Matt Seppings’
So… I joined Twitter. I know, right? I did it in the name of research for this story, and have liked it so much I think I’ll stay for good. (That may or may not be a hint for you to start following me, cause that makes me feel important and [...]
Capital City Diner and DCRA Square Off On Twitter
boulevard dinercourtesy of Paul Keleher
You might’ve caught the Washington City Paper’s piece this morning on the soon-to-be delivered Capital City Diner, about an old rail-car-style diner from upstate New York being moved to DC to be put up in Trinidad. If you missed it, it’s well worth the read, so head on over, and [...]
Pepco twitters… tell them what for
‘Towers of Power at Sunrise’
courtesy of ‘macmoov’
While I mean that in a “give em hell” sense, there’s also an opportunity to tell them exactly how you’d like to see them use this new tool. Their social media lead, Andre, sent us a message which asked us to share this with y’all:
We launched an online survey to [...]
Tea Party at Lafayette Park
‘Tea Party in DC’ (courtesy ’skye820′)
In addition to Tax Day, today is the official Fox News/Freedom Works “Tea Party” Day, when thousands, nay, millions of outraged conservatives who do not know what teabagging really means will descend on DC to protest taxes, because a Keynesian stimulus package and a ~3% increase in the marginal tax [...]
EnviroTaxi is only a Twitter Away!
A DC Taxi Day (though not an Envirotaxi) by Wayan
Apparently, getting a cab in DC is as easy as Twittering to @taxinow (aka EnviroRide.net taxis) your start and finish destinations, and they’ll route you a cab. For those of us who absolutely hate using the phone to talk to cab companies, this seems like [...]
