Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Today's Best Tweets



Here are some tweets that caught my eye today...




Mary Dixon ‏@MaryLDixon
Note to Doomsday watchers: Mayan calendar ends this Friday, 12/21 at 5:11a Chicago time. Winter solstice begins same day at 5:12a. We hope.

DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT
CHINA DETAINS MORE THAN 500 FOR DOOMSDAY RUMORS... http://drudge.tw/TuG9VG

WBEZ ‏@WBEZ
Drought could lead the #Chicago River to reverse course (again) and flow into Lake Michigan: http://bit.ly/T3d7fZ

HowardKurtz ‏@HowardKurtz
Watch: Richard Engel and his NBC crew describe 5-day kidnapping ordeal in Syria, and escape, after mock executions http://bit.ly/U9V21V

Anna Davlantes ‏@AnnaDavlantes
Sesame Street show goes viral 30 years later http://ti.me/1nE6CX parents using it to teach kids about death. Watch it & you'll see why.

New York Daily News ‏@nydailynews
CHANGE OF HEART: Conservative Joe Scarborough STUNS with passionate call for gun control on his MSNBC show http://nydn.us/RBJYvy

Rob Hart ‏@RobHart1980
From the Rob Report: The outpouring of tributes to Milt Rosenberg is a testament to the power of local radio: http://robhartradio.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/radio-radio

bill adee ‏@Bill80
Nielsen to buy Arbitron for about $1.26B http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-nielsen-to-buy-arbitron-for-about-126b-20121218,0,2404867.story …

Robin Baumgarten ‏@WGNRobin
"Howdy, Guv-nor!" Is there such a thing as a cockney cowboy accent? Nailed it!

Dave Wischnowsky ‏@wischlist
It's truly incredible how often this girl on the Red Line is using the word "like" while talking to her friend. Like, really.