Tweet
The name given to a post on Twitter.
# tweet-2 - Friday 26 April, 2013
11 internet firsts you probably never heard of
The first photo ever uploaded to the internet, the first registered domain name… let’s step back into the internet’s history.
# tweet-2 - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Thatcher tweet sees Irish cricket star banned for 3 matches
John Mooney quickly apologised for the ‘derogatory’ message about the former British PM.
# tweet-2 - Thursday 4 April, 2013
Embarrassed politician accidentally tweets porn link
Morto for Rob Wilson, UK Conservative MP.
# tweet-2 - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Pope’s Twitter account is back in business with this tweet
It is @Pontifex reborn this evening.
# tweet-2 - Monday 25 February, 2013
Tweeting the election: How one TD really saw the 2011 campaign
Labour TD Aodhán Ó RÃordáin kept a diary recording all his tweets – and what he really thought – throughout the 2011 election campaign. Two years on from the election, he shares some of them for the first time.
# tweet-2 - Monday 28 January, 2013
Official Police Tweet of the Day
Morto for the Dallas Police Department.
# tweet-2 - Thursday 24 January, 2013
Twitter unveils new 6-second video app called Vine
The new feature allows users to take short looping videos which can be shared on social media.
# tweet-2 - Saturday 19 January, 2013
‘Dembele’s not good enough’ – How I became public enemy number one on Twitter
How one tweet opened up a new side of Twitter that Paul Fennessy had never experienced before.
# tweet-2 - Saturday 5 January, 2013
Kobe Bryant joins Twitter, gains 432,235 followers in 22 hours
The LA Lakers star lost out to the Clippers last night and is still 6m followers behind LeBron James.
# tweet-2 - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
Here are our top 10 most tweeted articles in 2012
From Maeve Binchy to the fatal Swedish House Mafia concert, these are TheJournal.ie stories which were shared the most on Twitter this year.
# tweet-2 - Friday 14 December, 2012
Christmas tweets to light up old Dublin flour mill
AOL is inviting people to send festive tweets, the most popular of which will be projected onto the side of Boland’s Mill in the Grand Canal Dock.
# tweet-2 - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
Former Wallaby legend Campese slammed for rant about female sportswriters
The goose-stepping rugby star has been putting out fires (with tweets) ever since.
# tweet-2 - Wednesday 21 November, 2012
Vatican launches new Latin-teaching academy… with a tweet
Cardinal who heads up the academy is an avid tweeter and promoted his new project by tweeting in Latin.
# tweet-2 - Wednesday 7 November, 2012
The most popular tweet of all time
Four more years. Half-a-million retweets.
# tweet-2 - Sunday 30 September, 2012
MEP Nick Griffin says he will not apologise for ‘Fenian’ comment on Twitter
Griffin hit out at republicans after he received “vast amounts” of abuse on his Twitter feed.
# tweet-2 - Friday 28 September, 2012
Ferdinand: “The footage doesn’t lie”
QPR defender breaks his silence about the events of the past few months.
# tweet-2 - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
Button ‘disappointed’ with Lewis Hamilton over leaked team data
Hamilton posted the tweet after Saturday’s qualifying session for the Belgian GP.
# tweet-2 - Thursday 23 August, 2012
Twitter agrees to block fake Indian PM accounts
The government asked Twitter to take down the accounts because they risked increasing ethnic and religious tension.
# tweet-2 - Friday 17 August, 2012
Here’s your awkward Robin van Persie pic of the day
The striker today implied Man United were his boyhood club. But then this unfortunate photo emerged.
Rio Ferdinand fined over ‘choc ice’ tweet
The player will be forced to pay €57,000 for improper conduct over comments he made on Twitter.
# tweet-2 - Thursday 16 August, 2012
Clarke, McGinley and Bjorn named as European Ryder Cup vice-captains
A fourth assistant will by named by José MarÃa Olazábal on 27 August when he reveals his two wildcard picks.
# tweet-2 - Tuesday 14 August, 2012
Tributes from football legends, teammates and Green Army flood in for retiring Given
Sean St Ledger was gutted to hear of the Donegal man’s retirement and called him ‘an unbelievable goalkeeper’.
# tweet-2 - Monday 6 August, 2012
Gardaà to probe racism claim from Man City player following banana throwing incident
Gael Clichy made the allegation on his Twitter account, saying it was ‘sad to see’.
# tweet-2 - Saturday 4 August, 2012
‘Job done, from the Olympic ring’: Barnes tweets seconds after boxing win
The Belfast man is giving Flloyd Mayweather Jr a run for his money as a personality and a self-promoter
# tweet-2 - Thursday 2 August, 2012
Picture this: Iran’s supreme leader has joined Instagram
The supreme leader of Iran, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has thrown caution to the wind and joined the photo-sharing site.
# tweet-2 - Saturday 28 July, 2012
Tweet Sweeper: Paul Galvin is worried for low-flying ducks
You’ve seen him laugh. You’ve seen him cry. But have you ever seen him tweet about Geordie Shore?
# tweet-2 - Friday 27 July, 2012
Column: The Twitter joke trial shows freedom of speech has to include comedy
It doesn’t matter if comedy is offensive or upsetting – free speech must allow for all speech, writes Simon Carty.
Twitter explains why the site went down yesterday
Twitter suffered its second outage in five weeks yesterday, with users unable to access the site for a couple of hours. Did it affect you?
# tweet-2 - Saturday 16 June, 2012
Whales, legs and Big Ben – the best inanimate objects on Twitter
Tired of celebrities? Here’s what these inanimate objects have to say about the world.
# tweet-2 - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Ireland’s Call – Part Two: Put your questions to the Irish team in New Zealand
Get in touch with us to put your most searching queries to captain Brian O’Driscoll and coach Declan Kidney.
# tweet-2 - Friday 8 June, 2012
Summer Tour Diary: Tweets from Amy and McFadden orders an ‘Irish coffee’
Brian O’Driscoll’s wife is cheering him on from afar, the Irish players miss Maxwell House and Kiwis remind us again that we have never beaten them.
# tweet-2 - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
Ireland’s Call: Put your question to Declan Kidney and Brian O’Driscoll in New Zealand
We are giving you the opportunity to put your best comment forward to the Irish rugby team days before they face the All Blacks.
# tweet-2 - Tuesday 5 June, 2012
Different strokes: ‘common sense’ prevailing over Twitter policy
Denmark appear to be the only team to have held a firm social networking ban in place.
# tweet-2 - Saturday 2 June, 2012
In pictures: Twitter’s reaction to #EURef
How the Twittersphere reacted to Ireland’s decision to vote Yes in the Fiscal Compact referendum…
# tweet-2 - Monday 28 May, 2012
It’s official: Hazard confirms that he will sign for Chelsea
The tweet came late but fans of the Champions League winners will be delighted nonetheless.
I’ll be seeing you: Fabregas hit the social network to declare Euro 2012 fitness
The Spanish midfielder says he will be ready to play Italy on 10 June and Ireland four days later.
# tweet-2 - Friday 13 April, 2012
‘Get a life’: Piri Weepu hits back at fans accusing him of gaining weight
The All Black and Auckland Blues scrum-half has copped some flak on Twitter for his side’s poor Super 15 start
# tweet-2 - Sunday 8 April, 2012
Flanagan’s ‘government deathwish’ tweet criticised by Labour TD
A tweet from Fine Gael chairman Charlie Flanagan in which he asked had the Social Protection Minister “a government deathwish” has been criticised by Labour TD Colm Keaveney.
# tweet-2 - Saturday 31 March, 2012
Tweet dreams: Irish Olympic athletes free to use Twitter at London 2012
Pat Hickey knows what a London Bus looks like but, by the looks of it, he prefers vintage technology.
# tweet-2 - Wednesday 28 March, 2012
It’s not just you: Twitter admits ‘unfollowing bug’
Twitter acknowledged today that there is a bug which causes Twitter users to randomly unfollow people and said its team of engineers is working to fix it.
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