Category Archives: New media

Ed Miliband: American football fan?

Ed Miliband tweeted about the Baltimore Ravens vs New England Patriots

While British political geeks remain transfixed by the Republican primary race, it would seem Ed Miliband is eyeing another American contest: the NFL play-offs. Sure to shock many who never had him down as an aficionado of Gridiron, Ed’s comprehensive tweet summary of the New England Patriots- Baltimore Ravens stateside showdown was full of expertise befitting of an [...]

Katie Price Twitter hacked? Model tweets about quantitative easing

Katie Price

Though speculation is rife that her account has been hacked, perhaps we would be wrong to jump to conclusions. After all, her Twitter bio does state: “Never under estimate the pricey!! [sic]“.

Luke Bozier: the full truth about the “senior Blairite adviser”

Luke Bozier

Bozier never worked as an adviser to Tony Blair Junior role was on second rung of five-tier structure Was in 10 Downing Street “for about five minutes” With a scoop headlined “Senior Labour adviser defects to the Tories”, readers of Monday’s Independent  were left in no doubt as to the gravitas of party operator Luke [...]

Iain Dale: “Reading text message made me wee”

Iain Dale

Ian Dale does his best to cross-subsidise the traffic of his Dale & Co website by auto-posting links from his well-followed Twitter account. Here’s why it might not be such a good idea: Perhaps it could have been worse for Ed Miliband after all…

Ed Miliband tweets “Blackbusters” instead of “Blockblusters”

Ed Milibans tweets "Blackbusters" instead of "Blockbusters"

Poor Ed — it seems it’s been one of those weeks. Has he been taking Twitter lessons from Diane Abbott?

Ed Miliband rings Diane Abbott during live Twitter row interview

Ed Miliband rings Diane Abbott during live Twitter row interview

Politicos were left bemused earlier when Diane Abbott, facing the media for the first time over her unwise race remarks, interrupted a live interview with Sky News to answer her mobile phone. Paul Waugh has revealed the phone call was from none other than Ed Miliband, with Labour sources claiming the Hackney MP was given [...]

Wendi Deng Twitter account endorsed by Twitter is a fake

Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng

After hundreds (more than a thousand according to Google News) of articles on Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi joining Twitter, it has emerged the account of the Chinese-born media executive was actually a spoof. So why on earth did Twitter verify the account as authentic?

British Gas and Diane Abbott tweet during two minutes silence

British Gas tweet

With a growing media culture of obligation around the wearing of poppies and the observance of armistice day, Scrapbook can’t imagine Labour front bencher Diane Abbott was too pleased with herself after re-tweeting a YouGov poll during today’s two minutes silence. British Gas’ new media team also decided to commemorate 11/11/11 by tweeting a “winter warmer [...]