- dominic:
Find your Boston Bomber name by taking the first name of an innocent man and the second name of an innocent man and posting it on reddit
Author Archives: Jeff Porten
- Sara E. Mayhew:
So, did the internet spend all night wrongly accusing a Brown University student as 2nd Watertown suspect?
@saramayhew just the last four hours or so.
- David Grann:
Holy shit pic.twitter.com/2usTKSTEVQ via @moorehn
- Seth Mnookin:
Location? “@DavidGrann: Holy shit pic.twitter.com/ZwXnOhAl7Y via @moorehn”
@sethmnookin @davidgrann @moorehn that pic was retweeted by the Miami Herald. Will check it for EXIF data.
- John Siracusa:
Ill-advised 5am run to and from Logan airport successfully completed (albeit via a circuitous route).
@siracusa the only possible reason you should do that today is if Boeing is giving you a 747.
- Quinn Norton:
Idly wondering how much Russia was supporting the Syrian regime to drain the Islamists out of Chechnya this whole time.
@quinnnorton Boston is historically on the road to Damascus.
- Quinn Norton:
@jeffporten nothing to do with Boston.
@quinnnorton Sorry, I was half asleep when I tweeted at you. Was meant as a joke.
- Quinn Norton:
@jeffporten ah, was dealing with some pretty crazy statements at the time.
- Stephen Hayes:
CFR backgrounder on Chechnya and terrorism.http://www.cfr.org/terrorism/chechen-terrorism-russia-chechnya-separatist/p9181 …
“@stephenfhayes: CFR backgrounder on Chechnya and terrorism.http://www.cfr.org/terrorism/chechen-terrorism-russia-chechnya-separatist/p9181 …” // Yes, thank you.
- Alex Halperin:
BREAKING: Suspect supported the right to raise fowl @salon http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/reports_fbi_to_release_picture/ …
WTF? // @alexhalperin: BREAKING: Suspect supported the right to raise fowl @salon http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/reports_fbi_to_release_picture/ …”
- Jill Greenberg:
RT @miamiherald: RT @shawna_england: View from my house…crazy #watertown pic.twitter.com/tZi8NMprRI
@dcjill See, I would take that as a reason to get the hell away from my window.
- Jill Greenberg:
@jeffporten yes, that would be the rational choice.
- Jill Greenberg:
TV makes me more anxious. *Shut off TV* Twitter makes me want to turn on TV. *Turn on TV* Vicious cycle.
@dcjill Try turning on the BBC. Or PBS.
- Jill Greenberg:
@jeffporten Maybe NPR might help? middle ground?
@dcjill NPR always helps. @nprscottsimon kept me sane post-9/11.
- Jill Greenberg:
@jeffporten I find them so soothing, generally.
- Jamie Kilstein:
Many confused white people not knowing where to invade right now.
- Linda Holmes:
Endless speculation always feels like a quest for, ironically, comfort about how the world works. I think comfort will be elusive.
. @nprmonkeysee I think the speculation is more about filling airtime, and our cultural need to all be pundits in real life.
- Linda Holmes:
@jeffporten Yeah, I think those things are both true.
The breaking of dawn across the country shortly followed by the sounds, “<yawn><stretch> . . . HOLY SHIT.”
- Kirk McElhearn:
My latest iTunes Bloke column RT @allmacworld Renaming files, wireless syncing, and matching music ripped from vinyl http://dlvr.it/3FqXW1
@mcelhearn did I rename your column?
- Kirk McElhearn:
@jeffporten Nah, just a joke. I tried to get them to change it for this one, but they wouldn’t. cc @jonseff
This would be a good day for Google Glass tuned in to Twitter.
…and things just got even more weird and complicated. RT @AP: BREAKING: AP sources: Boston bomb suspects from Russia region near Chechnya, lived in US at least 1 year.
- Andrew Kaczynski:
RT @GlennThrush: Key questions: Why didn’t they leave Boston days ago? Why did they have more bombs?
@BuzzFeedAndrew @glennthrush If they were robbing a 7-11, we’re not talking a well-financed operation.
The breaking of dawn across the country shortly followed by the sounds, “<yawn><stretch> . . . HOLY SHIT.”
- Christina Warren:
“All we know is he arrived in [cardiac] arrest here, we don’t know what happened at the scene” – Doctor’s at Beth Israel
@film_girl which “he”?
- Christina Warren:
@jeffporten the dead suspect
@film_girl would seem to contradict setting off explosives, then…
It’s kind of Boston to agree to shut down so the rest of us can watch a live episode of 24 and Cops.
Attn: Facebook. Apparently a name went out on police scanners overnight who is a MISIDENTIFICATION of Boston 2nd suspect. So, you know, confirm before you share, okay?