I Made Drudge!

So, yesterday I read a news story about a Tampa woman jailed for feeding bears. (She’s an idiot. But there are ways of dealing with idiots that don’t involve throwing 81-year-old women into jail without bond. Somebody in the chain of events should have found one of those ways.)

In my self-appointed role of “curating the Internet, one tweet at a time,” I posted a tweet about it. Usually, I’ll cut-and-paste a quote from the story, but this time, I composed my own inflammatory summary, the exact wording of which doesn’t appear anywhere in the article:

That got some attention. 35 retweets! Apparently, one of my retweeters caught the attention of Erick Erickson (who does not follow me… yet) and he re-retweeted it to his 100,000 followers.

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Then, this morning, I saw this on the Drudge Report:

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And, sure enough: almost the exact same wording that I composed (just changing “leaves” to “left”), linking to the same article.

Coincidence? Possibly. But, given the wording, I think the linkage was via Twitter: me to @instapundit to @EWErickson to @Drudge.

I’ll try not to let the fame go to my head.

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Comments

  1. I say you made it. 🙂

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