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

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.

i meant like -- some people hire people to tweet for them. >> no, i tweet my tweets, yeah., sometimes. but i also do facebook. but twitter, it's me. >> jimmy: that's definitely you. i mean, during, like, intermissions you'll be out there tweeting. >> well, right now, we have a hashtag, which is s.i.p. in the broadway communities, which is saturday intermission picture. so the whole broadway community started taking pictures in intermission. >> jimmy: backstage of what they're doing and stuff like that? >> yeah, backstage of what we're doing. we're bored. we're eating a donut, and we take a picture. >> jimmy: you're not eating a donut in intermission. >> whatever. but some people do. >> jimmy: you can do that this saturday. we'll all follow you. and then, if you have -- >> bring it on. >> jimmy: do a picture of you eating a donut. it would be pretty awesome. i'd love to see it. >> we'll do that. >> jimmy: all right, we'll do that. i want to talk about your -- some other stuff, some old acting stuff you've done when we come back from the break. you guys, ricky martin. [ cheer

see if you can differentiate between mitt romney's tweets and the real tweets of kanye west. kanye." [ cheers and applause ] freedom, hard work, and innovation build successful businesses. who tweeted that -- romney or kanye? audience:romney. kanye. >> jimmy: it was indeed mitt romney. we are off off to a bad start if you couldn't get that one. what about this one -- individuals pursuing their dreams build successful businesses? audience:romney! >> jimmy: that is mitt romney again. couple kanyes, yes. i'm going to make a book of my tweets, tweetbook. audience:kanye. >> jimmy: you are getting good. kanye. one more. i hate when i am on a flight and i wake up with a water bottle next to me, like, oh, great, now i got to be responsible for this water bottle. that was, maybe wasn't as difficult as the i thought. that was kanye west. congratulations, i think that makes you political scientists. [ cheers and applause ] hey, you -- youtube is trying to get their users to use their real names. when you post a comment on a video, youtube gives you the option to post under your screen n

you read the tweets.ive tweets that are happening right now, and it's not just people that we recognize. really -- there are a lot of interesting capabilities that we have discovered. i think i have got swing states. the swing states are going to be the key to the election. wisconsin is a swing state, bernard, and transform it to when you can. we have -- we are actually able to geo locate or figure out where the tweets are coming from for a lot of the messages. >> so -- so just to be clear, as somebody is giving a speech for example, you can flip to the swing state of wisconsin or ohio to get the on the ground pulse of what people are saying? >> exactly. and we have set it up to be able to get -- we have people there with you in "the war room" in san francisco, here in new york and in los angeles, all monitoring these twitter conversations, so i have the luxury of being able to pick what i think is the most appropriate conversation thread going on. let's go back to main stream media, because it's really i

join in, tweet us, and you could be a part of our on-air and online coverage.ow that is politically direct. ♪ >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv. this is the "bill press show." >> john: good morning people of earth and welcome to the "bill press show." i'm john fugelsang filling in for bill press on this friday. he had governor mitt romney booked as a guest for the next three years, but then i brought up that i would be asking questions about his tax returns, abortion, and the fact he donated millions to planned parenthood back in the '90s, and they both said they gave 10% of their interest to their church. so mitt romney won't be here. if you are going to ask mitt romney a single question about the biggest story in the news cycle for an entire week about a story that would haunt his campaign for the rest of the election someone, you don't get the interview no more. and this is what rupert murdoch was talking about when he tweeted about the dumbness of mitt romney's advisors. >> it's unbelievable. >> john: he said loo

that's why you had everybody tweeting nbc #fail.ce not as just a social network, but something taking place in the media realm and that was an important takeaway that we actually had from the olympics. i spoke to twitter and they gave me exclusive stats on just how many tweets we were seeing and the volume. we had tens of millions of tweets from the olympics and the sheer volume was just insane. you had 38,000 tweets per minute when u.s. gymnast gabby douglas won the gold. you had 37,000 tweets per minute when michael phelps won the last gold and 29,000 when the fab five -- 29,000 tweets per minute when the fab five, the u.s. women's gymnastics team won the gold. the conversation went to twitter when this was happening. in the olden days maybe we sat around and talked about it on the couch, but now people are turning online and they're actually talking about it and i spoke to twitter and they said this is 100 times more the tweet volume than the beijing olympics and we saw this was the break-out social media of the olympics and it's

he tweets more often. when we start building the political index back in april where we are measuring the actions of twitter users towards candidates through their tweets -- at that time there were four times as many tweaks per day about the president as there were for governor romney. today the ratio is about 1.5 to 1. at this rate we're probably a few weeks from there be a one- to-one ratio of conversations about the president as conversations about governor romney. the conversations about the candidates is equal. that might be a starter metra to compare the campaigns. >> i want to throw two concepts out. one is durability, one is persuasiveness. what is the shelf life, do you think, something that gets shared in any social media contest -- context? and is it correct there is sort of an assumption that durability is short, it is a limited value? concept two -- is social media a place where persuasion occurs in the dynamic process, or more often than not people are already sharing a set of values or perce

i tweet. i know you tweet as well. it is going political. >> voter sentiment.hether it devotes is another thing. they are analyzing the millions of tweets that are going out there every day. 400 million tweets. who is getting more favorable tweets? is it obama or romney? they have mitt romney up a little bit up 9 points. this was a rough week for mitt romney. a lot of what was going on wasn't effecting him on twitter. people were rallying to his defense. overall how much does it translates into the votes it will be interesting to watch in november. >> do they zero in on the number of hits that say romney or obama? >> they are looking at the mood. you can look at parts of the country where interesting mood shifts are happening. they may say look into the midwest to see there's a lot of excitement for mitt romney. you might look on the east coast and say maybe there's more excitement for president obama. they are looking at the names at what is going said about them. i am excited about mitt or president obama's platform. y where else do we get people -- i think p

next up, can those tweets be trusted? can any tweet be trusted? we'll put it to the test now with a panel of tweeters, insighters. more coming up. plus my tweets. >>> let's talk a little more about jcpenney. it's down 30% this year. would you take a chance on this stock? let's see what you said. yes. 23%. no, 77%. now let's see what's coming up on "street signs." oh, she's not there. well, let's go to a new segment, sue, shall we? >> always something interesting on "street signs." we have a new segment that we need to get to calling it the power lunch tweeterati. a group of writers in new york with a national dialogue, today we have the same thing. those very conversations are happening on social media like twitter and right now on "power lunch." let's meet the tweeterati. joel joins us. catherine rampel. with "the new york times." and our own john carney. a pleasure to have you. i want to start with how you all came together and made -- because youasically hold court on twitter. talking about the financials of the day, the big stories of the day.

about the privacy of the tweets or the user information? my brooift information i give to twitter to open the idea? >>> nobody has a problem if you're talking about tweets and turning them over. we're having a problem if you're talking about turning over an ip address, drafts of tweets. that's the problem most of us have with this judge's ruling. >> i have here it says that you say privacy is a huge issue and the company needs to protect user privacy, we have you both saying you have to do more, did i get that wrong? >> no, look, they have to do more than just object to that and they have done that. >> i think they have done a lot, and i think the big point here is that andrew is in the law practice of going after investor fraud, which is this important, and privacy and these sorts of issues are way less important to user who is really care about things like identity theft. >> i'm sorry, i thought this was about twitter, not andrew. is twitter doing enough to protect them? >> he's right, twitter did way more than enough. they went after the

natalie, who did you tweet? poppins, she's fun, saviory, she can fly, world's best nanny, has to be a great teacher. >> savannah? >> i said yoda. >> yoda kotb. >> wanted the force to be with me. yoda. i think we'd look good standing next to each other. >> al got all serious. >> a little bit. dr. martin luther king, jr., we could all hear the words and lessons again. what would he think about where we are today. >> agree with that. >> he would be the best. >> here is what one of our viewers said. alisa, dream teacher would be a cross between maya angelou and jack black. >> very good. this one i love. david beckham. oh, my god. i would learn nothing. we like that. >> sandra says my dream teacher would be joey deschanel, quicky, fun, seems to have fun all the time. that's the way like would be. >> sandra day o'connor for civics, susan b. anthony, sanya richards-ross for p.e. teacher. >> many teachers. >> if i had to choose someone to be my teacher, i would choose my great grandma. >> that's so sweet. >> it is not t

tweet me @thomasaroberts. managing my diabetes is part of my life, between taking insulin and testing my blood sugar... is this part of your life? freestyle lite test strips? why, are they any... beep! wow, that hardly needs any blood! yeah... and the unique zipwik tab targets the blood and pulls it in. so easy. freestyle lite needs just a third the blood of onetouch ultra. really? yep, which is great for people who use insulin and test a lot. max and i are gonna run out and get them right now. or you can call or click today and get strips and a meter free. test easy. some people think steak is only meant for special occasions. well who said breakfast. on a tuesday. can't be special. get that great taste anytime. with kingsford match light charcoal sven's home security gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! how does this thing work? oh, i like it! [ garth ] sven's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! woo-hoo!!! so that's ten security gators, right? put them on my sp

sorry inside the events just tweeting taking pictures an tweeting them. there's a pool can camera in the pool at the bottom of the pool tweeting photos of the swimmers as they dive into the pool. you're getting the fascinating inside out perspective. i think that enhances what nbc is doing. they have the broadcast aspect what they're doing to think about as it relates to going in real time. >> let me switch and ask the zoe question. >> yay, yeah. >> if you were, you know, in the administration, chief technology office, what should america be doing now government doing now to make sure we have staying competitive. >> i am a member of the p cast a science advisory for the president. one of the things to know is that america's technological leadership came with an awful lot of help from the government. it started out through world war ii. there was a gentleman, mr. bush who foresaw the underlying science infrastructure. it created everything that dick and i and represent. in the '40s and '50s. they laid the groundwork for physics. all that for people to say,

we have this tweet.mitt romney saying paul ryan is ready to be president when paul ryan is as green as sarah palin? sadly sarah palin was a governor. let's look -- at least sarah palin was a governor. let's look at an exchange with paul ryan and timothy geithner in february, 2012. [video clip] >> what is frustrating is your rhetoric never matches your action. >> i do not think that is fair. >> you are showing us a plan to add complexity to the tax rate. >> the burden is -- >> this is your fourth one. >> what we said here is what we have to do as part of a balanced plan to do this in a fair way. what we propose to do in this context is too modest -- modestly increase the effective tax rate on the top 2%. >> the top rate goes to 44.8%. >> not the top marginal rate. >> assume for the sake of argument that i am right, and this has been fact-checked for a million times. i know. exactly. you are raising marginal tax rates. in wisconsin, nine out of 10 individuals file at -- for fiat -- corporations file as ind

join in, tweet us, and you could be a part of our on-air and online coverage. >>now that is politically direct. (vo) ...after the premiere of joy behar: say anything what makes hershey's s'mores special? pure chocolate goodness that brings people together. hershey's makes it a s'more... you make it special. pure hershey's. it's like chicken and crunchy stuff got married! i only use french's french fried onions on my crunchy onion chicken because it's america's number one brand. just minutes to make, then bake! [♪ theme music ♪] >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, it's the "stephanie miller show"! ♪ i'm walking on sunshine woe ho ♪ ♪ i'm walking on sunshine woe ho ♪ ♪ it's time to feel good hey all right now ♪ ♪ it's time to feel good ♪ >> sorry, i can't talk to you now, mr. president -- i have to start my show -- mr. president i would like to tell you -- >> i'm going to keep doing the chair bit all morning. >> did you sit on a pie? >> i sure hope so. >> stephanie: jim ward called me live to say wtf? [ explosion ] >> is this really happening? >> twitter almost w

let's take one more tweet while we're @jimcramer tweeting. predrag_pes says hunger games and expendables 2 come out tonight at midnight. lgf catalyst? i want to pray for rain so i can see "hunger games," but lgf, needs catalyst beyond those. in other words, got to be something on the horizon that nobody is thinking of or it won't budge from this 14 or 15 level. well, i guess that wraps up homework. "mad money" is back after the break. [ engine idling ] [ engine revs, tires squeal ] [ male announcer ] more power. more style. more technology. less doors. the 2012 c-coupe. join mercedes-benz usa on facebook for the best summer sweepstakes. >>> nobody's been a bigger critic of cisco and ceo john chambers in recent years than i have. the networking giant seemed bloated and blowing with the breeze with back row events. felt like every quarter we had to hear endless alibis for why the company wasn't living up to expectations created by the company itself on the previous conference call. when you read the release and it was actually positive you had

host: a tweet to you. asked why voting machines would not be made factored with auditing our diagnostics in the event of failure-tampering? guest: taxes are audited. why is there no federal law mandating the audit of these floating systems. -- these voting systems? it is an excellent question and one that we are tackling. i invite your callers to join us at common cause and push for a federal law that requires paper ballots and audits of all of the voting systems. if there is no law like that in your state -- we have new ways of auditing that are cheaper and cost effective. thank you for your comment. host: monty says the problem is not the machines. get rid of the electoral college. from florida, bill on our independent line. caller: traditionally, paper ballots have not provided birth liable paper records. how can you square that with tradition -- verifiable paper records. how can you square that with tradition and with vote buying? guest: we consider a paper ballots to be something that the voter can ve

that last tweet came at midnight before the train derailment was called in. a numb of emergency responders have been on the scene from howard county, baltimore, the ntsb on the scene, trying to determine what happened. also as you would imagine, coal is strown all over main street in ellicott city. because of that, they are out there now with heavy equipment, trying to move the 23 cars. a number of bars were open at the time. the patrons came out to see what was going on. we spoke with ken, the county executive about putting the train derailment in to

shortly after mayr tweeted pictures of the bridge. her street dangling over the bridge and a view of ellicott city at night. >> you know, it's really, really sad. i hope that my children learn something that train tracks are not a place to play. >> national transportation safety board investigators say the three men train crew reported no sightings of people on the tracks and said they did not hit the brakes, but that an automated braking system did kick on. otherwise it's too early to know the cause of the crash. >> if we got some video of the recorder, information that we are down loading and looking a. >> in all 21 cars of the 1.7- mile long coal train derailed. crushing cars in an adjacent parking lot, and killing the two college students on the bridge. and main street here in ellicott city is closed and expected to be for a matter of potentially days f days. let me take you up. again, it was a 1.7-mile long coal train with 80 cars, 21 of them rolled over and it just happened that these two young college students were up there on

two athletes were kicked out of the olympics because of tweets. he said south koreans can go burn and referred to them as a bunch of mongoloids. and papahristou tweeted, with the so many africans in greece, at least west nile mosquitoes will eat homemade food. we asked twitter for a response and they had nothing to say. paul chambers, ktvu >>> call state has reached an agreement with faculty members. california faculty association says it's disappointed it could not get a pay increase. contracts still need to be approved by university trustees and 23,000 members across the 23 campus systems. >>> a coalition of community groups and politicians rallied around golden sac. oakland makes a payment of $4 million a year to the base as part of a refinancing deal from 1998. the interest rate was more than 5%. goldman sach's received millions in bail outs and loans. goldman sachs refused to speak with ktvu today. >>> san mateo council spoke about pushing the -- in most of the county for a period of 10 years. the increase would disproportionately hurt low in

see if you can differentiate between mitt romney's tweets and the real tweets of kanye west.to play "romney or kanye." [ cheers and applause ] freedom, hard work, and innovation build successful businesses. who tweeted that -- romney or kanye? audience:romney. kanye. >> jimmy: it was indeed mitt romney. we are off off to a bad start if you couldn't get that one. what about this one -- individuals pursuing their dreams build successful businesses? audience:romney! >> jimmy: that is mitt romney again. couple kanyes, yes. i'm going to make a book of my tweets, tweetbook. audience:kanye. >> jimmy: you are getting good. kanye. one more. i hate when i am on a flight and i wake up with a water bottle next to me, like, oh, great, now i got to be responsible for this water bottle. that was, maybe wasn't as difficult as the i thought. that was kanye west. congratulations, i think that makes you political scientists. [ cheers and applause ] hey, you -- youtube is trying to get their users to use their real names. when you post a comment on a video, youtube gives you the option to post u

i'm sending you lots of tweets.te definitely michael phelps with 17 medals and still counting. up hope we will see him in brazil. uba tweeted the star is gabby dougl douglas. micah agrees. if not missy franklin, then gabby douglas. rosemary said the people keeping the place clean. what do you think is the star of this year's olympics? keep the tweets coming. i will read more of your responses later on. we have been waiting on the back to school makeover all hour. don't miss the big reveal. as the world around it. with the available lexus enform app suite, you can use opentable to make restaurant reservations... search with bing... and listen to pandora. presenting the 2013 lexus gs, rx and the all-new es, the leading edge of the leading edge. during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newest models. this is the pursuit of perfection. to find you a great deal, even if it's not with us. [ ding ] oh, that's helpful! well, our company does that, too. actually, we invented that. it's like

join in, tweet us, and you could be a part of our on-air and online coverage. >>now that is politically direct. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> jennifer: earlier this week mitt romney was in texas schmoozing lone star state tycoons and he raked in $10 million. that huge amount of money came from rex tillerson. harold hamm, the oil billionaire and the 36th richest person in new york who happens to be romney campaign's top energy adviser. get that, top energy adviser big oil guy which should give you some understanding why the energy plan that mitt romney rolled out today pushes more oil drilling and less regulation. mitt romney still has the gall to accuse the winners and loser. >> the government of united states is not a very good venture capitalist. he's picking winners and losers. mostly he's picking losers. i don't want the government investing in companies. particularly companies of his campaign attributers. >> jennifer: bottom line he's got a lot of explaining to do. joining me now from washington to talk about romney's energy plan such as it is is daniel weiss, se

twitter announced its tweet estimate on its website, the top athletic moment in tweets was the men's 200-meter final in which jamaican usain bolt won gold. it drew 80,000 a minute. his 100-meter final win sparked 74,000 tweets a minute. another popular event was when the u.s. goalkeeper blocked a japan scoring drive in the women's soccer final. the tweets highlight of the closing ceremony came with the of 1990s pop icons the spice girls. >>> the olympic flag is on site at his new home in rio to host the next summer games in 2016. the mayor waved the flag as he stepped off a plane with london with team brazil. >> translator: to bring this olympic flag, i think, is a very special moment for our country, for our city. to represent the people i represented. the brazilians. >> it describes people who are from rio and he says although the road to the games is not even, the city will transform itself. local and national government officials need to solve many problems before they welcome the world for south america's first olympics. these include building transport infrastructure, combinati

it is up to more than 36,000 followers and has tweets like the g.o.p.lt me and after mitt romney's speech, global warming's invisible too? the ap is reporting romney aides were wincing backstage during the speech. eastwood is one of the few speakers who did not read from a teleprompter. shortly afterward president obama took to his own twitter to respond to the speech with this photo. the picture of the president's chair saying this seat is taken. of course, we'll have more on mitt romney's speech coming up next hour as well and more bill press after the break. see you then. (vo) every news network will cover the convention. but only current puts you at the collision of tv and social media, providing unsurpassed insight into the most buzz worthy tweets, posts and pontifications, from the entire social stratosphere including you. join in, tweet us, and you could be a part of our on-air and online coverage. brought to you by: spiriva handihaler. if you have copd like i do you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd includes chron

it also send us a tweet. or an email. we have this tweet -- please speak on romney's africa policy.mphasis on sudan seems more of the same. guest: we have to say that there are two policies. the one that mitt romney talks about and then a team of foreign policy adviser is under them to read -- is under them. these two parts of the campaign do not necessarily communicate well or get along. they do not necessarily agree on priorities. africa policy has not been a prominent part of mitt romney's foreign-policy agenda thus far in speeches and events. that is not to say he does not have a team of people and in washington who care about this issue. what they say about it is that there should be an increased focus on it -- human-rights. an increase confrontation of the sudanese regime under presidnet bashir who is an indicted war criminal. the head person in charge of africa policy with the mitt romney campaign is williamson. a former special envoy to sedan under the bush administration. he told me there will be eight increased effort on focusing on the people of darfur. >> in your old pub

the london organizing committee has cameras at the event tweeting. there is a camera at the bottom of people that is tweeting photos of the divers. you're getting this fascinating perspective. i think that enhances what nbc is doing. they have the broadcast to think about, as it relates to realtime. >> let me switch. >> if you were a chief technology officer, what should america be doing now? what should government be doing now to make sure we stay competitive? >> i am part of the science adviser for the president. one of the things to know is american technological leadership came with an awful lot of help from the government. it started after world war two. he foresaw building overlying science infrastructure. that is what created everything that dick and i represent. literally in the 40's and 50's the people that laid the groundwork, all of that does not question how it works. the question is what is the right role. it is clear that leadership is the key part of that. 18 at the top universities are in the u.s. china has zero. there's something abo

we're showing tweets from wisconsin. miss badger, badger from wisconsin said i can't stomach these guys anymore. can up just send me a text of voldemore's speech. >> governor walker can't recall caring about the workers of wisconsin but the workers of wisconsin really cared about recalling governor walker, and the whole notion behind his whole scheme was people have to believe that collective bargaining for teachers unions hurt the deficit but tax cuts for gazillionaires doesn't. this is a guy who would attack a hornet's nest if he thought the bees were too organized. do you think mr. vice president that there was a failure to get the vote out or was there so much koch money there that nothing would have helped? >> i sympathize with the voters of wisconsin and they did a very good job but they were up against very heavy odds. the money advantage that the walker campaign had, i believe it was eight and a half to one. now look, our democracy is in trouble. and this is a premier example of why. he won the recall, he won the

levitating.earlier tweets stated...ing on top of ellicott city sign with rose petals and looking down on old ellicott city.right now no details on funeral services have been released. the crofton man accused of threatening to shoot up his workplace has been released facility.a prince george's county judge released 28-year- old neil prescott to the custody of his parents to continue taking medication - and attend counseling while he awaits arraignment. police say back in july ... prescott called his supervisor threatening to load his guns and shoot up his workplaae. he has been charged with one count of telephone misuse. you might have found aafew gems while cleaning out your attic but nothing quite like what stephon tull ffund.inside an old boo in chattanooga, pennessee, tull discovered an audio reeording f an interview his father did with martin luther king juuior.... back in 1960.in one part of the interview... tull's father asks ing what effect he thinks sit-ins will have on his struggle for equality. equality.dr. ma

let's take one more tweet while we're @jimcramer tweeting.hunger games and expendables 2 come out tonight at midnight. lgf catalyst? i want to pray for rain so i can see "hunger games," but lgf, needs catalyst beyond those. in other words, got to be something on the horizon that nobody is thinking of or it won't budge from this 14 or 15 level. well, i guess that wraps up homework. "mad money" is back after the break. ♪ 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. . . . why should golfers take 5-hour energy? playing golf all day can make you tired. i've been taking the product for about a year. and, after taking 5-hour energy, i feel more energized. i have more energy. you know, i'm not tired anymore after taking it. i was skeptical but i decided one day i'd try it. 5-hour energy works fast. i have the

a single tweet a single tweet launched this mega-summer hit. hit.ing call me maybe)) maybe))who is behind the tweet that launched carly rae jepsen's career... and how hh's helping her take her popularity to the next level. level. you're watching fox 45 good day baltimore. ♪ ♪ i'm thinking sweet ♪ and i'm thinking new ♪ i'm thinking all these brilliant colors ♪ ♪ shining through ♪ i'm thinking sunshine ♪ i'm thinking sunshine ♪ i'm thinking [ whistles ] ♪ i'm thinking [ whistles ] [ female announcer ] 40 delicious flavors that feel as good as they taste. yoplait, it is so good! ((nats of song)) song)) there's this song.. you might have heard it before.. it's called "call e maybe".candace have you heard it? it?nope... this song has launched carly rae jepsen to national stardom...this morning takes a break to reveal life in the fast lane it's a true cinderella story in the music business, as canadian born carly rae jepsen tops the billboard singles charts with "call me maybe" for the 9th week. jepsen says: "very surreal, very bizzare but also quite won

when you've got a tweet? >> i keep -- i will admit, i am not the greatest twitter user of the twitter verse. there are all sorts of different people who utilize it probably far more better than i do. i usually keep it up on my computer screen and just follow it that way. i also have a twitter app on my iphone. >> what do you think the impact of twitter is? maybe either on the news business or on the society? >> i actually think that there are positives and negatives. the positive impact i think it helps you stay more informed, more up to date on what's going on. there are outlets. if i come into the white house in the press pool. we had access to the president and see him interacting with voters. we see him in afghanistan and we're on those trips. you have a very unique view and lens into the president that others don't have . the value of that is to be able to tweet and you can watch and you can tweet realtime as things are happening. think the negative is that it has the 24 hour news cycle, in some ways, it

>> you know, this is the danger of tweeting and not thinking or tweeting while drunk or something. but i -- it it was a very odd tweet. i know we covered it at the "post." i don't know what has -- what other sort of sanctions he's had at "politico." but it seemed about right that he's wading in and seeming to give his opinion on this. that i -- >> taking a sde on whether or not the congressman -- >> taking a side. >> it didn't seem like something that akin blurted out and didn't mean those words. >> right. yeah. >> he obviously believed it when he said it. >> he believed it when he said it. he sort of said this is what doctors, he'd read from doctors. he bheefed it when he said -- believed it when he said it. to step back and say what he really metropolitan was this, i thought was a bit much for cantonese to do that. and right for "politico" to take him off the story. >> the congressman said it wasn't one thing, it was two. one is "legitimate rape" and quote what's that, and that a woman can't get pregnant as a result of it? we have two issues here. >> right. >> then that's why say

we've been asking celebrity guests to read actual tweets directed at them.hopefully refltion. ♪ if mike piazza's hair caught fire andsomeoneut it out with a castron skillet t you woululd have danny mcbride. >> a new show ere james plays james, guyuys get your backpack and boots, this is the apocalyp, i'm sure of it. >> i would rather chop my arm off and [ bleep ] myself with my detaed limb than watch katy perry the movie, what the [bleep] is w wrong with the e w? >> zoe dechanel is o overrated. i think i'm underrated. >> dyou know if you skinned larry king and ironed out t his leather you could make enough coats to give onone to every po child in america. [ bleep ]. david spade. at least this guy gets right to it. >> i liked krisisten stewart mo. ♪ everybody hurts >> matt leblanc los so old. what happened? why don't you go [ bleep ] yourself. >> if you climbed inside snooki's vaginina, it would probably be like the [ bleep ] pacific ocean. >> ever since he shaved he looks like old, fat, justin bieber. thanks. >> dear god, give us back tupac and we'll give yo

>> well, you tweeted -- you have six million followers, and you tweeted that you liked the movie, andy expecting moderate interest in the film. we didn't think it would be popular, and so we weren't prepared for that kind of a nuclear situation. >> jimmy: no way. that's great. well, that website actually shows that you can actually try to request it to have it come to your theater, in your town. >> that's right, and we actually went -- we started a hashtag, "bring sleepwalk," a few weeks ago, and we went from being in 34 theaters to being in 100 -- as of today, 147 theaters from this hashtag, "bring sleepwalk." >> jimmy: is that right? >> yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: good for you. that's great. that's awesome because it's a great movie. i watched it -- and i watched with my wife. and she, of course, loves the relationship stuff, but i love the stand up comedy stuff. because, i was telling my wife, that's what happens. >> yeah. >> jimmy: that's what it's like. i mean, you can get this feeling. it's hard to describe, but you would do anything just to play a gig. >> yeah, it's

earlier tweets by the girls stated... drinking on top of ellicott city sign down on old ellicott city. now... as the crowds gather below watching the investigation unfold... neighbors are mourning the loss. (diane conolley)"you expect that children will outlive their parents and its really a tragedy when children go first... so my heart goes out to the mothers and dads of the two young ladies.. who were killed"(kathy vitek- tragedies like this happen and as the faith community gathers. gathers. again both of the victims were getting ready to return to college. now their families are preparing for their ffnerals. so far... no details have been released about those services. the area... coming up next in - haaf hour... hear what they admit about the raiiroad pracks.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. 3 a homeless shelter employee is suspended ... after a female resident claims not only did he assaulttáherá... but her baby, too.it's a story you're seeing first on fox. fox.the incidenttallegedly took place sunday evening

thank you, sir. >> i tweeted it out right away and probably got more replies, more tweets in responsethat one little -- those two little tweets on the kiss cam than all of the serious politics i tweet about all the time. >> change your hair, see what happens. thank you. we'll catch you again 4:00 p.m. eastern. right? >> 4:00 p.m. eastern. we got a lot of news coming up today. >> look forward to it. thank you, wolf blitzer. >>> well, as we mentioned earlier in the program, th president obama and mitt romney are on the stump today. not surprisingly. mr. obama's in ohio and republican rival is in ohio and of course hecklers and protesters are part of every race for the white house. but our dan lothian who's covering the president caught a very unusual protest of sorts. have a look. >> reporter: president obama says he feels right at home in iowa. >> we spend a lot of time in iowa. and i felt like an adopted son of iowa. >> reporter: but even at this friendly rally -- >> four more years. >> we found discontent. do you think the president let you down? >> on global aids funding, certainly,

do not follow her @kathielgifford. >> do not follow me. >> i tweeted kim. i tweeted ellen.o they could retweet. and i could beat you on the tweets. >> how many followers do you have? >> so few because i just started. but i did tweet that -- no, i facebooked that picture of you. >> which picture? >> the photo of you. it has 11,000 likes and 100 comments. >> okay. where was this posted? on our show page? >> aren't you proud of me. >> that's terrible. >> i didn't know they could send it to somebodelse, and a whole lot did that. thank you, everybody. i'm learning a lot. s and ate you on twitter. about. you guys know that there was -- >> he has a new movie. >> the headle in the "new york post" -- he was on "the daily show" with jon stewart. >> and apparently is handling this very well. wouldn't you like to after something li that hole up someplace and lick your wounds and try to make sense of this. but, you know, part of making the movies, one of the huge commitments they make is to go off and promote it. >> when he went on jon stewart, jon stewart did something funny, gave him