irish.lemon

yep!  i got my 15 seconds of social networking fame thanks to rick sanchez’s real-time twitter feeds on cnn newsroom earlier this afternoon.  i was working on my presentation and checking on twitter.  aimlessly multitasking, and submitted an answer, not thinking much of it.  i had the tv on in the background, then i heard “reading your responses on twitter, ‘rudy made a miscalculation…’”.

?!?!?!?!

i turned around and saw my post on the screen!  he read three responses – mine was first after the commercial break – just before closing the show.  i scrambled for my camera, but by the time i’d hit record, his segment was over.  i wanted the verifiable proof that i was indeed, indirectly on cnn.  i’ll just wait until the transcripts are posted on cnn.com and paste them here.

still, very cool occurance for someone studying communications and social networking…i’ll try again for tomorrow after work.

**update, 09-19-08**

(full transcript)

SANCHEZ: All right, thanks a lot, Jacqui. Your comments to us. Here we go. “Rudy made a miscalculation. The RNC itself would be an act of community organization, rallying around its leader.”

“Rudy intended to make those remarks about Obama. The repetition was over the top in his speech.”

“Rudy is a Rove robot. His puppet strings are easily pulled.”

And there we go on and on. “Oh, make no mistake about it, he meant it,” says one of our Twitter commenters as well.

There you go, they continue to come in. We’ll continue to ask and you continue to respond. Thanks so much for being with us. We’ll be looking for you again tonight. Special coverage on some of the political issues and of course the very latest on the polls at 10:00 p.m. Eastern. I’m Rick Sanchez. See you in a bit.