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Michigan Alum

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7. Someone set up a twitter acct tonight "fired big bird" and 10,000 signed up in an hour.

Reply to pamela (Original post)

Thu Oct 4, 2012, 02:12 AM

Oct 2012

Mitt Romney's pledge to cut funding to PBS, however, really hit a nerve with viewers, who chimed in nearly instantly on Twitter. (You can see the video clip of Mitt Romney vowing to cut federal funding to PBS below.)It only took a few minutes for a spoof Big Bird account appeared: @FiredBigBird. As I type this, Fired Big Bird has surpassed 12,000 followers; the account will have reached even more by the time you read this. Here are some of Fired Big Bird's best tweets.Big Bird@FiredBigBird

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-best-of-fired-big-bird-twitter-reactions-to-october-3-presidential-debate

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"Big Bird" has been trending on Twitter all night. [View all] pamela Oct 2012 OP

Remember what happened to Newt when he went after the bird. Downwinder Oct 2012 #1

Sometimes I love the internets. pamela Oct 2012 #3

Need a cartoon of Romney shooting Big Bird Downwinder Oct 2012 #4

A pretty good segment on KPFK this afternoon on how abumbyanyothername Oct 2012 #2

Yeah, this was so predictable. pamela Oct 2012 #5

What kind of guy thinks firing Big Bird is funny? gulliver Oct 2012 #6

Someone set up a twitter acct tonight "fired big bird" and 10,000 signed up in an hour. Michigan Alum Oct 2012 #7

YUP.. AsahinaKimi Oct 2012 #8

Hi twitter friend! pamela Oct 2012 #12

Your are welcome! HI HI!! AsahinaKimi Oct 2012 #13

OH NO!!!!!!!!! AsahinaKimi Oct 2012 #14

Those 711 cookies did him in! treestar Oct 2012 #19

And in all the talk about Big Bird, let's not forget the human consequences BarackTheVote Oct 2012 #9

Thanks for the behind the scenes look Cha Oct 2012 #16

RIP big bird Generic Other Oct 2012 #10

imagine if the Electric Company napkinz Oct 2012 #17

My friends will be more upset aboput Downton Abbey. Generic Other Oct 2012 #20

The pundits have to react that way...gotta keep it looking like it's a real race rainbow4321 Oct 2012 #11

My favorite... EmeraldCityGrl Oct 2012 #15

Exactly. ALL of the pundits want the horse race. treestar Oct 2012 #18

This is going to destroy Robme! Odin2005 Oct 2012 #21