Let The Weiner Roast

Normally people visit the graves of their loved ones, watch the Indy 500 on television, barbeque, or just soak up the first holiday of the summer but his Memorial Day weekend many are in profound though on the purpose and mechanics of Twitter. Why do people "tweet" and who do they choose to follow on Twitter. Assume that celebrities, politicians, journalists, and bloggers "tweet" to promote their work and themselves. That seems almost axiomatic. Nothing to see hear. But when one ponders the question who celebrities, politicians, journalists and bloggers follow things get kind of murky. This blogger is followed by a nationally known author and while this led to much excitement, the excitement quickly waned when it was discovered the author followed some 45,000 other people. Why would anyone follow 45,000 people?

Congressman Anthony Weiner has about the same 45,000 followers but at the time he, or someone using his Twitter account, in the throes of a testosterone rush, dispatched an untoward likeness of himself to a young lady in Seattle he was following 214 people. Today the congressman has pared his "following" list to 198, apparently loosing interest in 16 people overnight. The congressman's press aide says the Twitter account was hacked but no one reported the hacking. The press aide does not say why Congressman Weiner was following a 21 year old lady in Seattle. Hey, 214 is a relatively short list! The congressman and his staff have the remainder of this long weekend to come up with a plausible explanation.

If the congressman hasn't deleted the offending photo perhaps there is someone who may really appreciate the attention. Meghan McCain, the pleasingly plump daughter of "maverick" senator and inept presidential candidate, John McCain says in a schmaltzy New York Times article that her favorite Democrat is none other than Congressman Anthony Weiner.

And Sarah Palin has really screwed up her love life! In her own words:

"I’m in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin will come up in like the first 20 minutes, and that doesn’t put me in the mood. Like, talking about Sarah Palin. And they just want to know gossip, and I’m just kind of taking a little hiatus from dating right now, because I just don’t want to talk about Sarah Palin."

Now Sarah is out with Rolling Thunder and having a good time and Meghan is moping around her bachelorette pad. Come on, Tony Wiener, send Meghan a tweet!