{"id":29,"date":"2009-09-10T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/9\/10\/Twitter-ergo-sum"},"modified":"2009-09-10T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T22:40:00","slug":"twitter-ergo-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/twitter-ergo-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter, ergo sum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so we still can&apos;t upload photos but we can sort of link, thanks to a workaround.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, <em>Las Vegas Advisor<\/em> is plentifully available on <strong>Twitter<\/strong>. We have &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LVA_Tweet<\/strong> (1,791 followers). &quot;This one aggregates [<em>Question of the Day<\/em>], <em>S&amp;G<\/em>, [<em>Today&apos;s News<\/em>], <em>Spotlight<\/em>, and then whatever I throw in there manually,&quot; writes <strong>Webmistress Jessica<\/strong>, who&apos;s also solely responsible for the following three:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SinCityAdvisor<\/strong> (766 followers). <em>Sample entry<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><span>RT @<a username=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Inkedmag\" class=\"broken_link\">Inkedmag<\/a> Voting closes today for the <strong>Inked Awards<\/strong>. Vote now for tattooer of the year -&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/oPX3\" web=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/oPX3<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23tattoo\" title=\"#tattoo\" hashtag=\"\" class=\"broken_link\">#tattoo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ink\" title=\"#ink\" hashtag=\"\" class=\"broken_link\">#ink<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23inked\" title=\"#inked\" hashtag=\"\" class=\"broken_link\">#inked<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>ToplessVegas<\/strong> (567 followers). <em>Sample entry<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span id=\"msgtxt3894941145\" class=\"msgtxt en\">Big Booty Urban Nite tonite @ <strong>Palomino<\/strong> &#8211; only nude club in Vegas with liquor license. Say hi to Foreplay for us ; ) <a title=\"#vegas\" class=\"tweet-url hashtag broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23vegas\">#vegas<\/a> <a title=\"#stripclub\" class=\"tweet-url hashtag broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23stripclub\">#stripclub<\/a> <a title=\"#nude\" class=\"tweet-url hashtag broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23nude\">#nude<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>GreenVegas<\/strong> (251 followers). <em>Sample entry<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">RT @<a class=\"tweet-url username broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HuffPostGreen\">HuffPostGreen<\/a> <strong>PETA<\/strong> is at it again: Check out this banned ad with <strong>Pamela Anderson<\/strong> (NSFW) <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Qppfj\" class=\"tweet-url web\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Qppfj<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Personally<\/strong>, I Tweet not. For starters, I lack the manual dexterity of Gov. <strong>Jim Gibbons<\/strong> (a prodigy capable of writing hundreds of text messages per day, earning him the sobriquet &quot;Governor Busythumbs&quot;). If the meme of the moment is &quot;I Tweet, therefore I am,&quot; I shall have to settle for nonexistence, as per this music video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IjlzAWUFT-0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowFullScreen\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IjlzAWUFT-0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Yup, that&apos;s Twitter phenom <strong>Crystal Chappell<\/strong> delivering the tag line. As for 72-year-old <em>Guiding Light<\/em>, it will be extinguished on Sept. 18, to be replaced on Oct. 5 with a new incarnation of <em>Let&apos;s Make a Deal<\/em>, starring <strong>Venetian<\/strong> headliner <strong>Wayne Brady<\/strong> (something for the tired housewife) and being taped at the <strong>Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(Kinda neat how I brought it back &apos;round to the the Strip there, huh?)<\/p>\n<p>Considering the lengths people will go to in order to get on a game show (and the near-riot that occurred when <em>The Price is Right <\/em>staged an anniversary show at <strong>The Rio<\/strong>), I&apos;d say a Brady-enhanced <em>Let&apos;s Make a Deal<\/em> is economic stimulus in which Las Vegas can finally believe. Bummer about &quot;La lumiere que guide&quot; (&trade; <strong>Will Ferrell<\/strong>), though.<\/p>\n<p>Any readers who have Twitter accounts and wish to be followed, please post in the &quot;Comments&quot; thread. And if the <strong>Comment-Eating Server<\/strong> thwarts you, I&apos;ll do a special <em>S&amp;G<\/em> post on your behalf. Is that a deal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so we still can&apos;t upload photos but we can sort of link, thanks to a workaround. In the meantime, Las Vegas Advisor is plentifully available on Twitter. We have &#8230; LVA_Tweet (1,791 followers). &quot;This one aggregates [Question of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/twitter-ergo-sum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,4,7,12,8,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}