he tweeted members of the women's gymnastics team and they tweeted back.a lot of conversation about the president culminating on saturday with the president's birthday and it doesn't get a lot more than happy birthday mr. president. and most of that week romney was out of the country -- >> jennifer: and his numbers were really bad, because it was not going well for him when he was out of the country. you have all of this twitter universe, but the people who are tweeting are largely younger and probably more likely to be following or supportive of the president. so how accurate is this cluster of sentiment? >> that's something we were very careful about when we created this project, and in our partnerships you mentioned up front, we all worked together to make sure we struck that balance. answer important thing to note here is that this isn't measuring every twitter user across the country or around the world. it is measures just those actively tweeting about politics and the candidates. we saw this, for example in the summer of 2009 when healthcare was not

sounding tweets?hought it was a gilbert god freed thing. people were making joke expiz said, forget it. these were serious tweets about the shutdown all power in manhattan. there was nothing funny about it. if he was doing it to screw people over he is a jerk. >> can i point something out. edward has been in jail do i have to call him con ed? >> he is doing his -- he is working at the tool and dye. >> would you call him con anything? >> andy is very angry that you took his joke. >> i am pro ed. >> greg, you don't know if the idea was equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater. i don't think it is. as you eluded to, he didn't cause a panicky stampeed. nobody got hurt from these tweets. >> it is twitter. twitter. it is totally irrelevant. >> i don't have time to talk about the last story other than to say tom, i agree with you. whatever we were talking about. >> how come you don't have time? >> i was told i have to go. it was a fragment of society. who cares. bye. >> you have a hard out. >> yep. >>

treat the tweet as a tweet. >> i don't think it was a simple joke. let me finish. not necessarily racist, but anti-immigrant. >> the bloody athletes are doing the bloody games. >> the games aren't in greece. she was talking about how many africans are in -- not athletes. it has nothing to do with athletes. >> was she not talking about the african athletes are going to be in london? >> no. she said in greece, not london. >> in your defense, i had the same -- when i first read the tweet i thought it was about athletes. then i realize she was talking about immigrants. that's when i go, she's probably a jerk. >> that's still not bad. all she said was they will be eating home cooking. if you said there are irish in bar saw loan gnaw and there is a huge potato beatle biting people and they won't say they are eating home cooking. you wouldn't say, take it easy. >> i think if you support a party that calls immigrants fillet, and then you tweet something lyings that -- >> you don't know the immigration rules. that is a whole other ball of wax. >> greece is a mess because of

who are you tweeting?is is an ipad. >> i know. >> i use it for my devotions in the morning. >> amen. >> let's tweet justin bieber. @ -- and then -- start typing justin. >> i'll hold it. you type. >> j-u-s-t-i-n. >> i can't see. that's always one of the problems. >> okay, justin bieber. >> i had a blast with your mom. >> no. do tweet me. follow me. >> how about please? >> yes, yes. please is not implied with follow me. >> then send. let's see if it happens now. how much time do we have to wait? >> oh, look at. there you are. you popped up. >> you successfully did it. >> but he's not going to -- >> maybe he is. >> how much time do we have to wait to see? >> okay, thank you. >> now that klg is a little more tech savvy. >> but i'm not. >> you're not. >> what else are we going to do? >> we're going to get high-tech gear, apps and websites that will put your kids at the head of the class. [ male announcer ] introducing zzzquil sleep-aid. [ snoring ] [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] it's not for colds, it's not for

and access it's again it's you people are tweeting about rianna they're not tweeting about you know c.p. so again you see a lead lining to the silver cloud in other words certainly i'm sorry in fact is there a little here. next time.

tweeting doesn't seem like something i'd hear from jack welch. unbelievable job numbers, fair enough. these chicago guys will do anything to change the numbers. what evidence do you have to the chicago guys got to the bureau of labor statistics and jimmied these numbers by 0.3%. >> i have no evidence. i just raised the question. >> you didn't raise the question. you are asserting in your tweet that you put out at 8:35 this morning, five minutes after the report came out that did you talk to the economists or anyone who understand how the numbers were put together before you accused the chicago guys of changing the numbers? >> chris, i know these numbers are gathered by a series of wild assumptions, maybe they weren't right at 8.5. maybe they weren't right at 8.4. but it seems coincidental that one month before the election, they would end up at 7.8. the president today is on the stump. the president, all he's talked about is 7.8. he didn't mention 600,000 jobs added in the government sector. >> see -- it's not your attitude about obama people car

your career is over politicians of course should be tweeting because everybody should be tweeting but they should really be very careful to also be fair to not post half naked pictures of yourself looking a rousing to anybody because it only takes a few seconds to send a tweet many people forget about its longevity a tweet will remain online for ever even if deleted so why not think twice before clicking as abraham lincoln said it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt and. r.t. new york. well today is considered one of the busiest shopping days of the year there are ads and specials and mas mobs of people committed to shopping until they drop but how is it that a holiday season that's supposed to be about caring and sharing kicks off in a way that's centered around spending and consuming laurie harshness with the resident on that spoke to several people in new york city for more on that. the holidays have arrived in the united states but instead of talking about family and religion americans seem only to be talking about. why is that t

still ahead for you this hour how tweets have changed the world one hundred forty characters at a time. they can twitter posts you know anything you wouldn't want your mom to see or wouldn't want people are portrayed in the newspaper you probably shouldn't put on twitter just twitter celebrates its sixth birthday we look at how it's generated scandals and inspired of the world change. the european union has expanded its sanctions against iran freezing assets and adding more officials to a visa blacklist it cites serious humanitarian rights violations for the measures which follow other similar penalties over the islamic republic's nuclear program the u.s. has just drawn up a list of countries which are to be cut off from the american financial system if they don't reduce iranian oil imports within six months meanwhile israel says its threat of a military strike on iran is stopping you from building a suspected nuclear bomb iran maintains its atomic program is for peaceful energy purposes only the big u.s. is against an imminent attack on the islamic state believing it would drag the wh

but in two thousand and seven he was on with tim russert and tweeted. tim russert with an acid spinal taps. and you know lost his contract with m s n b c o arguably the most notorious downfall now former congressman anthony weiner's tweeting a photo of his most private of parts we are certainly is one model of what not is that when i think that if i were ever going to cheat on my wife i don't think i would start by broadcasting it over twitter but this new broadcasting tool available to all is subjective i don't know if it makes them stupid or if they come to twitter already stupid they simply use it stupidly i think probably the latter was closer to the truth the micro blog is a minefield for those not cautious and they could twitter drunken posts you know anything you wouldn't want your mom to see or wouldn't want you've reported in a newspaper you probably shouldn't put on twitter so what are we putting on twitter and early study found so called pointless babble made up forty percent of tweets news only four percent is we're supposed to meet with you

and the they were all saying well now this really you know the person who tweets that they should own that they should be able to control the copyright they should be able to control where their information goes if they choose to delete it you know good on them they they have deleted it the court won and said no that's not exactly the case and it's only like one of the several examples we saw this week of finally the court getting their way in terms of being able to i want to see destroy the internet but there is a really unfortunate week as far as the freedom of speech in the first minute goes with internet rights not just a case of malcolm harris but we go back to i believe wednesday the house reapproved the feis. amendments of two thousand and eight act well and so as long as it clears the senate and then the oval office which it means is the government for another five years is going to be able to do on an essential. i watch everything i do on the computer for another five years so that's happening twitter is doing that it's pretty much this is a really really bad week for the int

into one hundred forty characters that tweet really should just be a brand. and you know like it should be held to almost zero standard whatsoever it's really just a brain fart but with half a billion users today from anonymous bloggers to world leaders twitter has become a much more powerful force than that. the micro-blogging site of the spread of protests during the arab spring but it's also become a tool for manipulating public opinion a book has a higher standard of checking than a column does the fact column is a higher standard than a tweet is the lowest circle of fact during iran's green revolution tweeted i'm witness accounts of government brutality helped boost western support for protestors turned out many other bloggers were thousands of miles from the action. so you thought he's also appreciate the power of a tweet recently occupy wall street somebody who we don't know who posts you know a message that say a cop should be killed ok my guess is the cops post it because then they were the ones that reacted to it made it a story whether for this inf

his latest project is a new book featuring some of his favorite tweets. he also continues to record and perform with his banjo. we are glad that you have joined us. our conversation with steve martin, coming up right now. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: pleased to welcome steve martin back to this program. the iconic comedian, actor, and writer is also a musician. his latest cd is called "where bird alert -- rare bird alert." he is also an avid tweeter. is that a word? >> it is now. tavis: his new book is a collection of some of his favorite tweets, "the ten -- make that nine habits of very organized people. make that 10 -- the tweets of steve martin." >> it is a good title to read, not to say. you have to kind of look at it rather than say it. tavis: especially with the lines and the circles.

is over politicians of course should be tweeting because everybody should be tweeting but they should really be very careful to also be sort of not post happen to get pictures of yourself looking a rousing to anybody because it only takes a few seconds to send a tweet many people forget about its longevity a tweet will remain online for ever even if deleted so why not think twice before clicking as abraham lincoln said it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt and. r.t. new york well that's going to do have harassed.

and access it's just again it's you people are tweeting about rianna or not tweeting about you know the n. double a c.p. so again you see a lead lining to the silver cloud in other words so certainly i'm very excited there are literally a couple at florida next i'm going to save us all and a hundred for you. chris chambers journalism professor at georgetown university. well it hasn't been a good couple of weeks in afghanistan to say the least first came the photos of the marines urinating on afghan corpses then u.s. troops burned the koran at a giant wartime prison prompting nationwide riots the gruesome killing spree by a u.s. soldier allegedly last week resulted in the deaths of sixteen afghan civilians the taliban has suspended peace talks and with the u.s. and with the united states and afghan president hamid karzai has proclaimed himself quote at the end of his rope with washington and now this is shocking new video out of a dentist and showing what appears to be an apache gunship crashed near a school and the incident highlights the dangers of aggressive a low level flying in

to ask klg, i'm tweeting.s appropriate. when am i gonna be on is what i'm tweeting? >> am i on tv? >> you're next, honey. what do they say? >> some college ones coming in. lisa patton from the university of georgia, we want kathy lee and hoda to come to uga. we love kathy and hoda. jen from the university of iowa, come to the university of iowa, the hawkeyes love you, klg and hoda. my son and i watch you every morning. >> thank you, everybody. keep them coming. >> you have until friday, right? >> yes, we do. >> we go wowie for howie. >> comedian howie mandel is going to get tweeting. >> he is with us right after this. >> yes, i got it. you know, ronny... folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. and how happy are they jimmy? i'd say happier than a bodybuilder directing traffic. he does look happy. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. it sparks a movement. because people can't keep it to themselves. look ! awesome! no ugly

here's the tweet you put out this morning. unbelievable jobs numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can't debate, so change numbers. and i'm just wondering, i understand the way it works the president gets a heads up on the unemployment number 4:00 the day before and has to keep it to himself. you're saying in your tweet this morning that the news went the other way, the people working for the president somehow got the bureau of labor statistics and played with the numbers so it's down below 8 today. how does it work from your perspective? what happened here? >> all i can talk about are some of the numbers. we had 600,000 government jobs added in the last two months. we had 873,000 jobs by a household survey, which is a total estimate, from 50,000 phone calls. of those 600,000 were temporary workers. chris, these numbers are all a series of assumptions. tons of assumptions. and it just seems somewhat coincidental that the month before the election the numbers go 0.1% below when they were when the president started, although, i don't see anything

tweet and interview last friday is that it or explain why is tweets are like that which is in comprehensible he said it because of auto correct and because he didn't like to type out of course i had to make his tweet any less stupid and in fact it's quite the joke of the twitter verse but tonight it deserves to be called out on t.v. and we just take a look at some of these tweets here chuck announces he has a new i phone clearly he's traveling just a little bit and here are some examples of his nonsensical accounts from town hall meetings in iowa hash tag ninety nine county tour profit oakland college of ed uni students cond a very good variety of cues see these students you know we have great supply teachers or this is what has tag nine counties grand junction not colorado tell me issue help small town f. and f. many of thirty people expressed great distrust of term limits the state tops. i would say still check spell check and i know they can only put one hundred forty characters in but is all the abbreviation really necessary don't start his town hall town hall meetings we don't make sens

he tweeted three times, retreated once. a recent tweet, quote, investors with high yield credits may return 4%, 6% in 2010. see page 10. derek fowler has 14 followers on twitter. i don't want to make you feel bad about how many followers you have. 14 is a darn good start. are you expecting to get maybe some more? >> i think i expect to get some more, yeah. to put this into perspective, social media and financial services, i've been lucky enough to deal with corporate executives, founders and early employees in silicone valley. >> so a high quality 14. >> a high quality 14. >> maybe if you tweeted a few more times, maybe you might get a few more followers, more than three? >> yeah. i think the idea is so we started morgan stanley in 2011, a strategy to develop a social media process, right? when we first started with link linkin. but what i think we see with our clients is there are people here in the valley and they always told me, please stay technologically relevant, right? so for us, this is i think something that is mor

here is a tweet.to speeches. >> let's listen to a clip from paul ryan's speech. >> it all started off with a stirring speeches, the thrill of something new. now, all that is left is a presidency surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed. like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind. [cheers and applause] you know, president obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he may have made. he said, i have not communicated enough. [laughter] he said his job is to "tell a story to the american people." as if that is the problem here. he needs to talk more? >> that was paul ryan. there was a cutaway shots when he was addressing the crowd. you were a little of emotional. >> we talk about his dad. his dad died. we talk about his mother. ultimately, doing something amazing and building her own business. we talked about that. i know him personally. even beyond that, paul feels so passionately about these issues because he cares so much for the people.

take a look at tweets and the articles that came after. mark halprin tweeted, unless mitt romney has gained the crisis manner some invisible to the gang of 500, doubling down is the most craven and ill-advised move of 12. and this appeared on times website, it looked very similar, read it yourself. about the romney campaign has gamed out the crisis and so on. and howard kirtz tweeted did mitt romney pull the trigger too soon on statement ripping administration over libyan consulate killing. and this headline in the daily beast, mitt romney's ill-timed assault on president obama, as americans are killed abroad. and l.a. times james rainy tweeted, cockeyed mitt romney takes libyan tragedy and find a way to side with moronic pastor terry jones. and then came this headline in the l.a. times, mitt romney should triple down on libya rally with reverend jones. so are the tweets sort of influencing the way this gets covered, the narrative of this? which comes first the chicken or the egg? and i don't know if the the tweets hadn't happened it would

i've got a tweet out there. i stand by it. >> but you don't regret -- >> i can't prove that they did anything to anything. >> in your heart, you believe they somehow cooked the books? >> i don't really know. but i do know this. that these numbers are implausible. >> but you know, so many politicians these days are saying like, you know, michele bachmann will say something that's factually not correct, not provable and say i'm just asking the question. is it responsible to say i'm just asking the question, but to say these chicago guys will do anything, oh, i'm just asking the question. >> should have put the questio mark at the end like i did last night. >> okay. >> a question mark would have been better at the back of that. >> okay. so you are kind of backing away from the chicago guys part. >> i'm not backing away from anything. >> you wish you could amend your tweet -- >> i wish i had a question mark at the back of it. same implication is there. >> okay. i want to bring in our business correspondent, ali vels

me just about everything there is to know about you that bird's name twitter so be careful what you tweet you never know this following your every move. it's tuesday march thirteenth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching arts. well the u.s. has apologized for the shooting rampage in afghanistan that killed sixteen people many of them women and children and unnamed thirty year old staff sergeant is now in custody and in undisclosed location the massacre has severely strained relations between afghan and foreign forces now u.s. officials are debating pulling out of the country sooner and planned and here at home a new poll shows more americans are growing frustrated that the way the war is going and want the troops to come back sixty percent say the war was not worth fighting thirty percent believe the afghan public supports the u.s. mission there and fifty four percent say the u.s. should withdraw forces meanwhile president obama today said anyone involved will be held accountable take a listen to his remarks the united states takes this as seriously as if it wa

these tweets. they then compare these posts to every other tweet sent on any given day and come up with a fiver ability score -- favor ability score for each. tomorrow we'll see if that changes. >> that will be interesting to look at. we should note that this thing went crazy on twitter tonight. in fact, about 45 minutes in, twitter sent out a note saying we've had more tweets tonight on this than we had throughout the entire vice-presidential debate last night. millions and millions of people. which ones caught your eye? >> there was one major thing people were talking about and one major trend we've seen during the debate season is the parody twitter account. in the second debate, laughing joe biden was created. tonight's big hit is this, romney's binder in response to mitt romney's references to the binders full of women he had during his time in the private sector. in his first 30 minutes of activity, the account surpassed 11,000 followers by simply tweeting women's names like teresa, monica an

during this time frame if you believe any of your tweets could be considered disorderly conduct. i don't think anything in the sort of the conduct statute allows for tweeting i actually don't remember what i was saying and since they're far enough back i don't have access to them through twitter. i don't think there's anything there that they would find of interest but apparently they do now this is a centrally a traffic take at a you call a politically motivated traffic take and why well the prosecution of seven hundred people on the brooklyn bridge there are there is there are actions that go over the brooklyn bridge sherry runs or whatever all the time and no one arrests them. what they arrested seven hundred people there was for was disorderly conduct. in act of civil disobedience and that's why it's politically charged now there were hundreds of people like. any other cases that you know of the prosecutor is trying to get twitter information from political activists. so far mine is the only one i know of connected with the bridge and now do you think but do you think that th

i am so excited to tweet like my hero grassley u.s.a., u.s.a., hash tag, i got the tweets like grassley. and send. nation, join me please in celebrating chuck grassley's artistic breakthrough and tweet like grassley. it won't be easy, but you can take inspiration from the senator's stirring message of hope. peace. a truer consonant has never been typed. nation, you know, i don't need to tell you what i think. i need to tell you what you think. this is "tip of the hat, wag of the finger." [cheering and applause] >> folks, i am sick and tired of obama's job-killing environmental regulations. although i could just be sick and tired from all the heavy metals in my water. well, now the e.p.a.-hole has her sights set on an industry near and deer to america's hearts in that it is in our lungs. jim, do it. >> the e.p.a. has issued new regulations that can virtually put the coal industry out of business. >> the environmental protection agency plans to put limits on power plant carbon emissions. >> stephen: putting limits on carbon emissions? what's next, putting limits on how fast we can drive?

tweet., some lucky lady at nyc is going to feel a couple of inches of pain tonight. shockingly the unlucky shock, the normal unshockable who fired off the following demand to anyone who would pay attention again, outrage doesn't begin to describe the reaction of the asian american journalist association to your unnecessary and demeaning tweet. of course the writer took the bait and on sunday wrote the following mea-culpe, quote, i then gave in to another part of my personality. the comedic nature that has been with me since birth. a gift from my mother and listening to my richard pryor album. i still want to be a stand up comedian. let's go to our cool cat in a bowl. >> he is too awesome to comment. >> i would be too. i don't know where to start with this story. it blows my mind. i will go to you. when an organization begins with outrage does it begin to describe our reaction? they are setting the bar kind of high. are they angry that their building burned down? how are you be outraged? >> i

here's what eric erickson tweeted. quote, i don't think it's healthy to indicate that the jobs numbers are cooked. a best-selling author and currently writes a blog with his wife susie. so do you really believe that people in the obama campaign, the chicago guy that you tweeted about, that they cooked the numbers? >> anderson, last night before these numbers came out, i tweeted, i wonder what the assumptions will be tomorrow. because last month, the assumptions were that participation rate dropped to the lowest level since jimmy connor. that means people quit looking for work so they don't count. there are so many assumptions that one makes coming into these numbers. you pointed out very accurately that they polled 60,000 people out of a work force of 100 million plus to see how many people had work coming in and out. but the numbers that came out today, they were the highest numbers of household employment since june of 1983, the biggest year of the reagan recovery. the plausibility, it just doesn't seem right. maybe

you may not own the tweets, fred. >> i know, the pressure of the tweets.vacy, guys. >> fred, what is it? >> let's hear it. >> what is it again? don't confuse me. i am still not used to it. that's pitiful. i'm just way too private for tv. all right. avery and richard, thanks so much. good tow sue guys. thanks for coming in this holiday weekend. have a great rest of the holiday weekend. >> likewise. >> appreciate it. >> you as well, fred. >> thanks so much. the legal guys are here every saturday, rain, shine, holidays. just regular days. they're here this time all the time to give us their take on the most intriguing legal cases of the day. >>> the families of the victims of the qucolorado shooting are meeting with charity and government officials. we'll tell you what they're discussing. i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor. i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the