i have been on twitter for just over five years. there was a presidential debates and i was able to collect reports on voting problems and the like. i was very comfortable with interacting with people on twitter to get information i knew nothing about. because of work i had done previously, i happen to know a handful of bloggers. i have met some in person. others were living in exile because of their governments. i would not say i was close with any of them, but we kept in touch. i watched what they're doing on twitter and their blogs. i started seeing them use a certain hash tag. i thought they meant a tourist town. as i read a couple of the messages, i realize that they're talking about this town in the middle of nowhere in south central tunisia. a young man had set himself on fire to protest is card being taken away from him. people came out in solidarity and in the support of his act. some people recorded video on the camera phones and managed to get it on youtube. there are bloggers i got to know who curated everything they were

donna on twitter says this to us. if the middle class doesn't buy the product, no one is going to hire new workers. and from twitter, adam writes this about job creation. if voluntary interaction between human beings creates the guns. get the government out of it. and tizzy writes we have the need in the physical structure, -- next is orlando, florida. carlos, a democrat there. good morning, carlos. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. just want to speak on this outsourcing thing. people need to kind of put themselves in the mindset of large companies. even though they outsource these jobs obviously to gain profits and large corporations can gain profits, keeping their jobs here, you know. they may not gain as much, so hence the outsourcing and that's the same with material costs. let's go buy materials overseas because they're cheaper than our other american companies selling us the same materials we would get. and that's what people need to understand. these large companies outsource because they want to

i have been active on twitter for five years now. we have used it in a variety of ways, during the 2008 election, during the presidential debates, to collect reports on voting problems, and i was very comfortable with interacting with people on at twitter to get information who i knew nothing about. -- that i knew nothing about. the work i had done previously, i knew a handful of bloggers from tunisia and others who were living in exile because of the government had repressed them. i also knew about the global voices product, which launched with harvard in 2005. i was not close with these guys, but i read their blogs. late in 2010, they started using a certain hashtag. at first, i thought they meant it was a cute tourist town near tunis. i realize they were talking about this other town in the middle of nowhere in south- central tunisia were a man had just set himself on fire in protest. people were coming out to protest in support of him. a couple of people recorded video on camera phones and allowed to get them on youtube. does blog

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it puts a ridiculous burden on twitter, violates the right to association, right to privacy. it was a good idea with horrible consequences. >> randy, courtney, hang on. thank you both. >>> there's word of new violence in an underground network of torture chambers in syria. as the sir ran president reportedly issues a rare apology for the actions of his troops. details on that straight ahead. >>> a code of conduct for those who operate drones. privacy advocates don't appear to be impressed. that's coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. ifs + i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. this is "studio b." bashar al-assad says he's sorry his soldiers shot down a gillette. the troops mistook the place for an israeli jet and israel used the same air corridor in the past. he said he would have preferred if it had been an israeli jet saying the turkish people are our brothers and something like that would make them sad. if it was an israeli airport i would have been happy. >> troops killed dozens in syria. the uprising killed more than 14,000 people si

a website there was an italian website there was talking about messages going viral elop there on twitter and on facebook and it's panic and one person said on twitter anough of this agony this please give us back the euro so the that's what social media is saying in europe it's actually not very pretty if you follow that through that's interesting how do you weigh the anecdotal evidence on social media i guess the twitter indicator if you will against their bits of news and information that you have coming in. well actually you will just look at you i mean there were absolutely soaring across the board today almost one hundred basis points that's one full percentage point from five and a half percent to six and a half percent in spending today on the to your treasury the ten year treasury had seven and a half percent uncharted territory well as of or in those three weeks ago rejoice the prime minister of spain was saying crisis all of that lasted what three weeks now we're seeing it in italy and the mood is really gotten you know pretty extreme there they're blaming president obama they'

and of course on twitter way too many times each day -- >> you are one of the five or ten people who ly followed you on twitter. i'm going to check it out. >> that's great. >> are you in l.a. at all -- >> i live in l.a.? >> i mean perform? >> yeah, i have a monthly show at the [ inaudible ] every third thursday. however, this month it's the 12th, so i'll be at the l.a. citizens brigade theater. with dave holmes. >> love him. good guy. rob thank you so much. i'm so glad you joined us today. >> i sincerely appreciate it. >> i haven't learned how to find the right buttons on steph's box. [ applause ] >> didn't we just have that clip? >> i'm like is this it -- and believe or not i'm having the -- >> on steph's box. >> yeah, a lot of guys have that problem. 1-800-steph-1-2. we are taking your calls when we return. it's the "stephanie miller show"! >> [ whistling ] that's a lot of zeros! >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong. we need more teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our this week

i don't care if they are on twitter. i don't care if they are not on twitter. it is all the same for me because i much like other law abiding citizens like fred willard, we don't have time for the internet. we can find stuff that is out in the general public. you can leave us alone, america. just let us do our thing. >> celebrities, became celebrities because they crave attention. it is like a new attention. they actually need to hear -- one person could say you suck and it will drive you crazy. >> twitter is like uh 10 on a -- attention on a drip. >> you get the immediate response. that's why i like alec baldwin. >> you get an immediate response for the dumbest things. >> a terrible cup of coffee this, month. 30 responses. who cares about your cup of coffee? >> it is a good test to what bothers you. i get death threats daily. it is like a cup of coffee in the morning. >> they don't bother me. people do that, and that will happen. today i wanted to kill. someone sent me every plot point to dark knight and i will see that tonight. i want that person dead. what d

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foundation say how many companies stand up when the government asking for something and twitter was the only oneands up every time. >> twitter they put out a list of with a country governments most requested information from them and u.s. government more than any country in the world requested info from twitter. >> that is why we're the greatest country in the world. >> coming up, daniel craig before james bond? victor roberts in his tell-all book. but first, what is tommy lee doing now? you are watching redeye so stick around. ♪ oat note. >> if he won't pose for a picture does that make him a jerk? motley crew's tommy lee is pleading them not to ask for pictures. writing, i don't owe anybody anything. when i bought all my led zeppelin tickets, they owe my a picture. that is the least they can do for me. you he questioned the nature for asking for photos in the first place. >> somebody is not going to believe you if you don't have the proof. >> that is what he does to the fans after the picture. cool. here is the thing i can't stand. >> i was told that no longer existed. how about that. >> and y

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i see it on twitter. he's giving up on apple. no! the new pricing schemes, collapse of t-mobile.ho can be considered consistent without surprise every time italy or spain bar ofs. witness today where verizon opened higher despite the fact that almost everything else was down. yeah. even genuine exorcist like reagan projectile vomiting. from all the way across the atlantic doesn't phase verizon. it has an increased margin. i'm not giving up on apple. i see it on twitter. he's giving up on apple. no! the new pricing schemes, collapse of t-mobile. all playing into the hands of the serial dividend booster. the bottom line, you need to start preparing for the very real possibility of a recession which means it's time to build yourself a recession-proof portfolio with two generals, dollar general and general mills, abbott labs, mr. ed and horizontal. after the break i'll try to save you more money. >> announcer: coming up, batter up. the boys of summer are prepping for the all-star break. cramer is squaring off the market heavy hitters in his stock derby and needs your help to call the

one guy on twitter, something horrible had happened. he was arrested for hitting someone on the road, hit and run drinking and driving. so all of a sudden you see people start saying, this isn't the guy i thought it was. so when you see these people on twitter, you can be anything you want to be on facebook and twitter. and sometimes i stay on twitter, i'd love to come to your farm and people say, stop on by. >> when we come back we will talk about real agriculture markets when we coback. >> on friday, or economics updated forecast for this year's dwindling crops. for soybeans the analytical firm says it expects savings down one and a half from the forecast taking production to 1.3 billion. as far as corn, that's down nearly 9 bushels from its previous forecast. that put production at 11 and a half billion bushels. according to our partners, a small crop will put a squeeze on the demand letter. >> now it's prices have gone high enough on the new contract reports are corn export numbers that low, with problems in russia and ukraine and ka

host: justin is one of those unhappy on twitter. response? est: i thought you were going to throw the question over to nicholas. there are so many different communities and experiences in this country. to define reclassifying people based on where they are in the country, what kind of communities they are living in, what is needed. i think it is important to have those things documented so they can be addressed and so we have a picture of what is going on. we're all americans, but i think it is important to look at communities to better address their issues by knowing what the picture looks like. guest: i agree. that is the great thing about the statistics we collect. we provide a portrait of the country, how it is changing and what the characteristics are. that is the best measure for knowing how we're doing and how we can improve. host: is part of the problem of violence? caller: one thing the program has identified is a lot of these things are not just a matter of will. it is not just that people are lazy and do not want to exercise. that i

we're going to post a link to the list on our facebook and twitter accounts and we have to give obviously a special thanks to the center for responsive politics for their service to transparency here if you search trans-pacific partnership under lobbying issues on open secrets dot org which is their web site you're going to find a list now it should be noted that public interest groups and unions they've been lobbying too but the probably not the ones that are getting inside info on these negotiations i'm guessing is by the many negative statements they've released concerning the t.p. and the damage that it could do to american workers so we'll be sure to keep you guys in the loop if more information does come out. now earlier in the show we spent a lot of time focusing on the obama administration's your own program abroad but drone use here in the u.s. will soon become just as big of a story and like everything else in u.s. politics the politicians are warping these issues to suit their interests you remember the back in february president obama signed a bill that forces the f.a.a. to fr

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you can also follow us on twitter, @msnbcyourbiz. rget to become a fan of the show on facebook. we love getting your feedback. until then, i'm j.j. ramberg. and remember, we make your business our business. >>> about 200 miles southwest of denver, there's a tiny town called paionia, every single year on july 4th, the residents hold a parade through their downtown. this year's parade earlier this week featured a float from citizens for a healthy community and this special ride for the citizen of the year, nice car, congratulations, ma'am. and then there was this. a column of imposing green tanks rolling through the center of town, one of which was equipped with two mounted 40 millimeter anti-aircraft guns. these tanks, it turns out, were not props and b, were the parade contribution from the local zil nar, a fellow named bill koch. he decided he wanted to roll the military tanks through downtown paonia, it's a free country, what are you going to do, right? >> one local resident not fond of this decision, what he decided to do was this,

he was on twitter because as people do now we follow each other on twitter and said do you want to write a political book together and i said yeah. >> the road trip spanned the entire country hitting major cities such as last vegas and washington d.c.. and also small towns. to get a flavor of what really matters to people on main street. >> i had an amazing time for the entire month we were on the road together. my favorite places were new orleans, because we had a fun time touring treme and all the old blues and jazz areas of the city. and we met a lot of cool friends and went to a cool jazzfest val and the next day we toured the 9th ward it was a juxtaposition of america extreme side americans have and then obviously the sad ominous reflection of a lot of negative things in politics and global warming and all the layers you can analyze about the 9th ward. >> mccain is a prominent young republican catapulted into the spotlight in twit during her father's presidential campaign. me is now a voice for young republican women even she know many don't agree with her. >> there is a lot of youn

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i was on twitter. it was blowing up. people were so excited to see joe biden there particularly because he did what mitt romney failed to do and that is he spoke from the heart and talked about vision, right? he said this is the vision that president obama and i have. i also think you cannot underestimate and underscore given joe biden's personal relationship with the naacp in his own work, lifetime, having

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. >> i am on twitter. >> jimmy: but you put a thing on twitter and say, hey, i've got seth mcfarlandmy: you see that, larry. [ applause ] >> jimmy: i like it when you announce the city. i like that. >> you, you, you -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: very, very clever, yeah. i know a lot of times when an athlete will retire, you wind up back in the house. everyone's disturbed. i know your kids are teenagers right now. >> my kids are 13 and 12. one is back from ing baseball camp in bradenton, florida, where a lot of major leaguers went. the other is at baseball camp at byu in provo. the 13-year-old, i'm taking to new york for the dodger/mets series. then he goes into football camp. he's going to play tackle camp. and the other one is going into football camp, the 12-year-old. and at cooperstown, to baseball camp. and i'm running back and forth. >> jimmy: i see why you need a job. i understand this now. >> i think they wanted me out. >> jimmy: chasing around to little league games. >> i love sports. someone of my age to have kids, you know, i'm the age of a grandfather, and i'm a father. >> jim

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but getting real people talking today in a soldier's show hit the ground running and the public on the twitter sphere have an appetite for more nothing short of groundbreaking revolutionary broadcasting highly engaged in one significantly representative of the times i'll miss it looking forward to season two of july in a stone show. but there's no guarantee season two can happen and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty want to do it illegally shoot the son of a guy would dive when forcing for him and nobody would know who is a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life the feeling is mounting that the u.s. would indeed prosecute julian as songs for espionage or worse given half a chance he's currently here at the ecuadorian embassy in london waiting to hear whether he'll get asylum it's thought that prospect was first raised off mike during his interview with the ecuadorian president for the show broadcast on r.t. mutual admiration is clear in the interview and it ends on a friendly but chilling note as who would be the pleasure to meet you julian lea

host: question on twitter. est: well, one thing to understand is, especially with the weather we've been having recently, most consumers pay a certain price per kilowatt hour,, but the price did utility -- price to the utility varies. if the price reflected the actual cost, he would -- you run the dishwasher when you went to bed at instead of at 5:00 p.m. he would do your laundry on the weekend instead of the peak hour. right now, some of it runs all the time, others only a few hours a year. the system would be more efficient -- i am talking about dollar efficiency here. a myth to bust -- the idea that we can do away with the grid because we are going to renewables. in fact, renewables will require a stronger grid. wind is so variable that what you really need -- you don't want to be connected to a wind farm, because you will have electricity at some of ours and not others. solr -- is somewhat -- solar is somewhat similar. you need it diverse resources that are not connected. host: matthew wald has been in the d

if i have only one source on twitter, that is not good enough. if there are 10 people on the ground all saying they're getting shot at and i know some of them don't know each other, more likelihood that you have a story here. so it is kind of strange when you pick apart the methods that i use, it is really grounded in very traditional reporting methods. >> i love the -- fact that this kernel of community they did before this. the global voices community is what formed that initial germ that. >> right. >> that spread. >> i had interacted with a lot of those folks over the years developing online communities from disasters, the tsunami and hurricane katrina and haiti earthquake. there was a critical mass of people around the world were basically on call if somebody big happened. combine that, people wanting to volunteer online and wanting to help each other with a certain subset of them also political activists in their home countries it played some type of role. i'm not going to argue these were social media revolutions. i hate it when they say tha

you can't mess with oprah, especially on twitter.e last night a guy on twitter using the handle awalk sent oprah a message saying, quote, when are you going to give back to the ghettos in america? oprah answered him saying, quote, when are you? i put 500 african-american men through college. and you, sir? morehouse college in atlanta, said, oprah donated more than $1200 since 1989, making her the largest individual donor to the all men's school. >> it was on twitter but i like your sbep tags. do you think that's how she said it? >> i'm sure. open prarks even if you don't like her, keep it to yourself. >> there you go. >> lesson learned. >>> 6:26 now. d.c. mayor vincent gray. >>> plus, former vice president making a surprising comment about sarah palin. >>> and the ticket trouble at the olympics. why a lot of people are saying, let us in. >>> a live picture of breaking news in northwest d.c. >>> welcome back to "news4 today." we have breaking news right now. d.c. police on the scene of a shooting in northwest. >> right outside of the

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but anyway, he gave the guy, the nbc president, one of the officials address, e-mail address and got knocked off twittert that? >> eric: surprising that nbc would sanction or sensor one of the reporters. -- censure a reporter. >> dana: this is bizarre. the guy, the e-mail he gave out. if you were the president of a company and you're a big wig, have a different e-mail. have a coded e-mail. this e-mail he could have made up and it happened to be the one. i'm very disturbed by the idea that you can arrest somebody, fire somebody, take someone off twitter because they sent a mean tweet. a bad precedent. >> andrea: doesn't it defeat the purpose of what they are trying to do? they're trying to get people involved and on twitter and exercise free speech. i think i don't want to post on twitter for fear of somebody being mad at me. >> bob: social media, we are learning more about it, the downside of it. it seems like every week something else comes up. facebook or twitter. >> dana: greg lives on the edge. >> bob: you do. what do you think? >> greg: here in my opinion this does nobody any favors. if you read it