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April 2012

Daily Twitter Posts - 09/04/2012

20:58 I appear to have beaten @drag0nista in the #NRL dream team head-to-head this week. #
20:48 Thanks for playing, Penrith. #nrlmanpen #
12:51 Another gratuitous Instagram photo in which I refuse to use filters @ Hyde Park Fountain http://t.co/HqfjH8MG #
10:35 Uh oh. MT @an_news: A British cruise ship has sailed from Southampton to recreate the voyage of the #Titanic. http://t.co/fi8PyFHB #
08:26 Would it be wrong for me to describe the late Sheila Scotter as the Ita Buttrose of her generation? #

Daily Twitter Posts - 08/04/2012

22:41 It's a hair removal technology, isn't it? RT @ozgooner: I rest my case. RT @andrew_54 @ozgooner What's an IPL? #
22:00 St Kitts-Nevis is another island nation where #climatechange sceptics should be sent to see for themselves - http://t.co/ZhxHysWV #
21:15 Alarm set for 8.00. Thank you. RT @thetodayshow: Set those alarms - @RichardWilkins speaks with @justinbieber tomorrow at 7.40! #JustinToday #
20:17 I have eaten no Easter eggs, nor any chocolate at all, today. So why do I feel unwell? #
20:16 Israel's disgrace for yet another Easter. RT @JamalDajani: A darker Easter for Palestinian Christians http://t.co/8qXmQ8tW #
19:39 That was close. #lightning #
18:28 And a nice little thunderstorm outside to wrap up Easter Sunday. #
15:49 A timeline of conflict in northern #Mali from French colonisation in 1891 to the Azawad independence claim on Thursday http://t.co/Qfe4acgs #
12:47 Oh lovely. Rain just in time for Eastet egg hunt. #
06:56 Today #NRL tip: RT @Horse_ebooks: Eels #
06:52 Not long till #London2012 now. RT @NZStuffSport: Intruder interrupts Cambridge-Oxford race http://t.co/DlLAesq3 #

Daily Twitter Posts - 07/04/2012

21:35 So Malawi's new president Joyce Banda is not related to Hastings Banda, but she has had her own nepotism controversies http://t.co/anQQCh1z #
21:26 @Swearycat same here but I thought it was worth a go at filling a niche. The UK rugby league group seems to be going well #
21:16 It's always good to see St George beaten to nil, even if it's by Cronulla :) #nrl #nrlcrosti #
21:11 @Swearycat you can. Is it worth it? I'll find out. #
21:08 How? RT @TrendsSydney: 'toda' is now trending in #Sydney http://t.co/UVvIx1cx #
21:05 Just a reminder of my latest venture into that unlikeliest of social media niches, an #NRL forum on #LinkedIn http://t.co/0gn5Ygtp Pls join! #
17:12 That be 0 bros Burgess playing next week? RT @LeagueUnlimited: SEND OFF - George Burgess (Bears) for a high shot on Manly's Scott Blanch #
16:42 Full time at the NSO. North Sydney 26 Manly 18. #vbnswcup #
16:38 Or sent off? #
16:37 Did George Burgess just get sin binned? #vbnswcup #bearseagles #
16:34 George Rose scores for Manly. http://t.co/ctBm6UDq #
16:28 And Rhys Wollaghan scores for Manly in the corner right in front of me while I have the camera switched off. Bears 26-12 #
16:24 No try. #vbnswcup #bearseagles http://t.co/J1baaswn #
16:04 Hmm. Can't pick up 100.1FM @triplehfooty at the NSO. Maybe I need to be at the Kuringgai end of the ground? #
15:32 Yes, I'm giving the brand new Instagram for Android a test drive this afternoon and starting to like it (with some reservations) #
15:30 #vbnswcup Greg Nichols scores for the Bears. http://t.co/UNJPUKo7 #
15:08 #vbnswcup North Sydney v Manly http://t.co/JENMUR1n #
15:07 #vbnswcup Game under way at the NSO. Oh and the Bears have scored already! 6-0 #
14:17 Didn't realise that North Sydney had separate squads to South Sydney in #hmatts and #sgball. Explains why Parra are flogging them this arvo. #
14:16 (starts following @TennisAustralia) #daviscup #
14:15 Apparently Australia's playing #daviscup this weekend. Who knew? #
13:57 Beautiful day at the NSO. #Vbnswcup Bears v Manly later @ North Sydney Oval http://t.co/Ne0WDcRA #
11:04 @mrtiedt cheers :) #

Daily Twitter Posts - 06/04/2012

21:29 The Tigers must be close to being cactus for the year. #nrlwstbri #
20:33 Stupid stupid stupid stupid half-time fireworks at the SFS. Why? #nrlwstbri #pollution #fail #
20:00 #nrlwstbri Now this is why I have Jack Reed in my Dream Team. #
19:51 #ff If you follow just one new Twitter account this week it has to be @dannolan_ebooks #
19:37 Calls for Saudi Arabia to be banned from #London2012 over lack of female competitors - http://t.co/h4zoC9hi #
19:16 My latest column at @iSportconnect is online - http://t.co/NDnbXXeB #
18:21 Cronulla should have just put "We were really really desperate for a sponsor" on the front of their jumpers. #nrl #
17:59 There. I've listened to a whole game of Ray Hadley's TV commentary. Ditching Vossy for him is the worst crime since ch10 dumped Rabs for Rex #
14:10 Fisherman's Friend? Really?? #nrl #sharks #
12:54 Look! Up in the sky! @ Star City Wharf http://t.co/Y1BNLfqR #
11:33 Every time I read Mark 15:39 I have this urge to put on a John Wayne voice. Thank you, "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965). #goodfriday #
08:59 Received a "sorry you missed our webinar" email from a webinar that I attended. Serves me right for going anywhere near a "webinar". #
08:21 There's nothing the smell of someone cooking bacon on Good Friday morning. #

Daily Twitter Posts - 02/04/2012

23:01 Yes I do wonder how many of those Facebook comments will the McDonald's CEO respond to. #mcgrilled #socialmediafail #ch7fail #everythingfail #
22:46 Well as if that program was going to be anything other than a superficial pro-McDonald's beatup. #mcgrilled #
22:43 Hello Channel 7, Hungry Jack's is on the phone, they have this great idea for a one-hour TV show... #mcgrilled #
22:39 So that's how you do a scientific test on a Quarter Pounder. Saw it in half. #mcgrilled #
22:35 We could have all just saved an hour and sung along with the Village People - http://t.co/njDA79ba #mcgrilled #
22:28 Steve Liebman's sure moved up in the world from the days of the Be Alert Not Alarmed ads, hasn't he? #mcgrilled #
22:22 Diary cam? I wonder how many diary cams have been edited out. #mcgrilled #
22:17 Not even selecting editing can make the production of chicken mcnuggets look anything else but revolting. #mcgrilled #
22:13 This is so a beatup. I avoided the Tasmanian #qanda for this? #mcgrilled #
22:09 So far that's free promotion for Inghams and McCain's as well as Maccas. #mcgrilled #
22:05 What we need now is some KFC ads in the break. #mcgrilled #
22:01 It doesn't matter that the ingredients for those dishes came from Maccas. It's what Maccas do with those ingredients. #mcgrilled #
21:59 Ok so #mcgrilled is the hashtag ch7 is pushing at us. This show is starting to look like a beat up. Steve Liebman for gravitas? #
21:48 Judging by Steve Liebman's intro this will be sort of a "Go Back Where Your Big Mac Came From" #mcdonaldsgetsgrilled #
21:47 The "independent" docco McDonald's Gets Grilled is just starting on ch7. #
15:05 @NSWRL full credit to the Bulldogs, but I wonder if the #NRL would even consider playing their Sat night games at 6.30 next #EarthHour? #
15:01 Lucky they didn't play Saturday night. RT @NSWRL: The @NRL_Bulldogs helped raise awareness for #EarthHour, What a club! http://t.co/ZndqkbMv #
14:13 There are very very few Australians for whom I've held as much respect as for Jimmy Little. He was 75. vale #
14:05 Jimmy Little has died. http://t.co/LT1f8qAL #
13:58 In case you haven't seen the England & Wales #Cricket Board's #aprilfool #BallDogs video, I've blogged it here - http://t.co/Mr4Gpkfm #
13:09 So exactly which person in this trailer that everyone is shoving at me is this Mister Sorkin? #
10:35 A blatant, flimsy and pathetic attempt at character assassination by the Daily Telegraph on Professor Flannery http://t.co/S895GH6B #

Youtube do dia: Balldogs

Over and above all the usual tiresome attempts at April Foolery, this two-minute video from the England and Wales Cricket Board is one of my favourites this year (along with 8-bit Google Maps). An "innovation" almost plausible enough that it wouldn't surprise me if the IPL tried to adapt it for real.

Here's the ECB's accompanying statement on the balldogs innovation, post-edited to partly wimp out of the April Fool's joke.

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