#f@ckyouwashington Hashtag Takes Twitter by Storm

[Hissyspit]

Source: Raw Story

#f@ckyouwashington hashtag takes Twitter by storm
Published on July 24th, 2011
Written by: Muriel Kane

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The hashtag #fuckyouwashington is currently making the rounds in just that fashion. As explained in a post at tagdef.com, “Thousands of tweets erupted in a matter of hours on #Jul23 protesting the US’s failed debt ceiling talks and general policies. Spurred by @JeffJarvis . Seen by some as part of #WorldRevolution or #USRevolution.”

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Although the tag may have been inspired by the current impasse over raising the debt ceiling, it seems to have released a much wider sense of frustration. Within a few hours, message boards like Democratic Underground were gathering some of the best tweets using the tag.

Other tweets gathered by CBSNews blasted Washington for everything from the handling of last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill to the criminalization of marijuana to going after WikiLeaks while not holding Bush administration officials accountable for turture.

Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City University of New York, an expert on new media, and the author of What Would Google Do? Late on Saturday evening, he tweeted, “OK, my fellow citizens, it’s up to you now,” as though he felt content with what he had accomplished, but since then he has continued to promote use of the tag in his own tweets.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/24/fckyouwashington-hashtag-takes-twitter-by-storm

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1561784

[Fearless]

1. Unfortunately I'm sure Boner doesn't know what Twitter is.

Otherwise, :applause:

[snot]

2. [self-delete]

[originalpckelly]

3. People are fed the fuck up.

[bigwillq]

5. Indeed

:thumbsup:

[yella_dawg]

4. I had absolutely no idea...

No idea that Bush was involved in turture.


Damn!

[Major Hogwash]

6. Twitter by Storm? Sounds like a cheap cologne to me.

By the makers of Old Spice.

Which by the way, they're recycling used up models now for their ads.
I saw their new ad the other day with Fabio and I thought "Good for them for recycling those older models like that, keeps those guys from dumpster diving."

[zalinda]

36. I saw an interview with Fabio and some girl

a number of years ago, when he was the biggest model on romance novels, and he is not a dumb guy. Apparently he has quite the business mind and has been investing for himself for years. He decided against a business manager, because he wanted to know exactly where his money was going.

zalinda

[snot]

7. Just checked the feed, and right now it's dominated by meta-comments

instead of substantive complaints against Washington. Let's DU it!

[CleanGreenFuture]

10. What does that mean, meta comments?

[snot]

11. People commenting on the phenomenon rather than adding "f-you w" tweets.

That may be because, as Luminous Animal said, Twitter's put a limit on it; but s/he also said, the numbers are captured on Trendsmap at http://trendsmap.com/topic/%23fuckyouwashington --

.

[CleanGreenFuture]

12. Twitter put a limit on it? Why would that happen?

[Ruby the Liberal]

14. They want to make sure that there isn't a concerted effort to game the system

They killed it from trending (probably because of the word fuck) and then they put a limit on it (like a speed bump) to make sure that it is thousands of people posting it as opposed to 10 people posting it 1,000 times.

[snot]

29. And Twitter is, after all, a corporation.

Slightly less evil than Facebook and Google, it seems; but I wouldn't rely on that too far.

This is why we need facilities owned by the USERS. Facilities like Facebook et al., but owned cooperately by the users, like credit unions (which were unaffected by the financial meltdown, b.t.w.)

[snot]

8. Just added a bunch; inspiration still coming. Come on!

For all the ranting we do here, we should each be able to crank out a dozen no problem.

[EFerrari]

13. RTing works, too. But do you think Twitter will let it trend?

I don't think they will.

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. Not with the word fuck in the tag.

They killed it last night when it started trending and that just made it more popular.

They also have a limit on it, so easiest to see all responses through the Searchtastic feed:

http://www.searchtastic.com/index.php?User=&Search=%23fuckyouwashington

[EFerrari]

16. Thanks, Ruby, I didn't know about that seach thingy. n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

17. Me either. Hissyspit posted it last night.

I couldn't figure out why a search ON twitter's own interface wasn't bringing back but a handful of results. I didn't know that they had throttled it. :eyes:

[snot]

28. Doesn't matter; anyone who wants to know how it's really trending can find out at

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftrendsmap.com%2Ftopic%2F%2523fuckyouwashington&h=rAQC-z7Zq .

[Luminous Animal]

9. Check out CBS

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20082636-10391715.html

@anolamous: ... for over a million gallons of corexit dumped on coastal Louisiana.

amthewalrus: ... for forcing me to be a criminal by using #cannabis as the #medicine it is!

amyalkon: ... for violating my 4th Amend rights & having a govt lackey sexually assault me as a condition of normal biz travel this am.

bellelass: ... because the less you listen, the more radicalized we'll become. It starts here, just like Tunisia and Egypt.

dancegenie: ... as you hide behind your #political agendas while the #Equines suffer at your hand!

HedgefundPLAY: ... We don't care about any of your reelections.We just want our country to function.

i_magpie: ... for preaching "freedom & democracy" while ignoring, nay supporting crimes against humanity. #Syria

ILikeyouLloyd: ... for giving $3b to Israel when they continue to build illegal settlements & engage in human rights abuses

jmb2612: ... for putting party before country

kgosztola: ... for going after #WikiLeaks & #Anonymous but not Bush Admin officials for torture & destroying rule of law

mjdub: ... for letting corporations steal our natural resources and sell them back to the people for profit.

[Bryn]

18. I went over there on the Twitter. Wow!

From all over the world to Washington!

People are angry!

[grahamhgreen]

19. You can follow it at: (link)

http://hashtags.org/fuckyouwashington

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. Here are just a few choice ones from the last hour of hundreds

@PyreBorn: #FuckYouWashington for thinking that #1984 was an instruction manual

@MADGEAustralia: for serving corporations ahead of populations #fuckyouwashington

@rockportbasset: #fuckyouTwitter for censoring #fuckyouwashington trending

@ohbamamama #FuckYouWashington for giving urselves $$ & taking great healthcare WE pay for, while denying us the same quality of life.

@maleah_jrm: #FuckYouWashington for your pandering to an ignorant, overly-vocal minority, and then assuming we are all that uninformed.

@polymath22: #FuckYouWashington for enabling people like fox "news" pollster frank luntz to hijack debate via linguistics trickery. "Job creators" #MyAss

@jfktruther: #FuckYouWashington for Extending the Unconstitutional Patriot Act for another 4 yrs

@woodywood143: #FuckYouWashington for bailing out wall street & kicking Americans out of their homes & closing our schools

@MorningW: #fuckyouwashington for touting Free Speach for Westboro Baptist Church's hate spew but imprisoning Bradley Manning for truthspeak.

@Teddy2500: #FuckYouWashington for treating political prisoner Bradley Manning worse than mass murderer Jared Loghner. #wikileaks #giffords #antisec

@polymath22: #FuckYouWashington for giving tax cuts to the rich and then telling the little people WE have a spending problem #VooDooEconomics #opesr

@fubarista: #FuckYouWashington for flaunting your wealth while millions of Americans are hungry, homeless, and unemployed.

@Silicablue: In 2010, the Insurance Industry spent $157,783,658 on lobbying. #FuckYouWashington




And this from Twitter:

@stevej: @astriddare we don't censor hashtags

May not censor them, but you throttle them and block them from trending...

[Luminous Animal]

21. "The #fuckyouwashington party platform is literally writing itself."

I like that one!

[Ruby the Liberal]

22. LOL! Nice catch.

:rofl:

[Ruby the Liberal]

23. @1whoknu: #fuckyouwashington for spending billions to give Iraq Universal healthcare but denying it

to your own citizens

:applause:

[Speck Tater]

24. And this is why Americans will NEVER take to the streets in protest.

They can sit safely at home and vent all their frustrations at the keyboard. Once their frustrations have been vented, they calm down and go back to watching "reality" TV and the whole phenomenon blows over in three to five days.

[Ruby the Liberal]

25. What streets, and with what money?

I don't disagree with you, but what do you propose we do? This isn't a small nation like England where everyone is a short train ride to downtown London and with so many of us unemployed, who could afford to travel somewhere to march?

[EFerrari]

26. Just like in Egypt -- oh, wait.

[Doctor Hurt]

33. venting kinda like you just did?

so answer your own question.

[ohheckyeah]

34. Because clearly you are either

in the streets protesting or watching reality tv. :eyes:

[Speck Tater]

35. I am, as my screen name implies, a professional Spectator.

I'm did my protest marching back in the 60's when I was young enough to be able to do it. Now I watch from my rocking chair as the next generation screws everything up just like every generation before it did.
(ed:typo)

[Luminous Animal]

27. FuckYouWashington for adding an asterisk to "Liberty and justice for all*"

*socioeconomic status subject to scrutiny

[Luminous Animal]

30. Kick.

[Luminous Animal]

31. #fuckyouwashington for wearing the letters #fuckyouwashington off my laptop

[Luminous Animal]

32. Great write up by Jeff Jarvis himself about how all this came about.

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2011/07/24/fuckyouwashington/

[donheld]

37. I just wonder if we stopped tweeting and got into the streets

if we wouldn't get more done?

[MadrasT]

39. ^^^ This ^^^

It's amusing and all, but people tend to confuse internet "activism" with, um, actual activism.

[lonestarnot]

38. k&r