Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Da Tweet Heard 'Round Da Parish
Posted by Kevin Allman on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Anyone monitoring the official Jefferson Parish Emergency Management Twitter account (now defunct!) at 1 a.m. on Monday must've been up for a surprise ... a surprise that had nothing to do with hurricane watches, tornado warnings or Black Friday at Clearview Shopping Center.
The T-P called it "waxing philosophical on e-mail about an old flameWe'll let the official JP press release explain what happened:
This morning at approximately 1:00 a.m. an employee of the Jefferson Parish Emergency Management Department was at home e?mailing a friend on a privately owned computer device. The two were discussing an old girlfriend using some explicit language. In the midst of their e?mail conversation the employee accidentally sent a reply to the parish’s emergency management twitter account. The employee immediately realized his mistake and removed the content from the twitter site.We sincerely apologize for this incident and for offending anyone who may have received this message.
The parish is removing the twitter account from the site until such time as more safe guards can be put in place to prevent this from happening again.
We must strike a balance between giving our emergency management staff the ability to send emergency information to our citizens on 24/7 basis from any location in an effort to protect lives and property with the need to prevent accidents and abuses from occurring on these social media sites.
Due to the fact that these messages were sent out on privately owned devices on a non?parish owned network we do not have any access to the e?mails or messages.
Fortunately, we do. Courtesy of Gambit reader Champ Superstar, the unexpurgated offending Tweet:
@JPEmergncyMgmt: frm behind. She love DP too. And loved 2 watch me be onside another woman
Reminder, kids: Don't drink and Tweet!
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I had something really witty to say, but I think this about sums it up: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAAA!!!
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I think we can all agree this is a fine moment in American journalism, and that the New Orleans Press Club is burnishing a trophy for us as we speak.
It's not like this is the first time that account was used incorrectly. Whoever was responsible often sent tweets to the wrong account...usually it was just stuff like "I love you" or "goodnight, darling" though
Why do I now think this would be the perfect caption for the girl posed on the JP police car? And will this tweet be engraved on the press award once y'all get it?
I find it vaguely hilarious sexual acronyms have become so commonplace. Who'd've thunk that we'd ever hear "DP" on the news? However, that does beg a few questions: Is Angela Hill going to have to explain it to the gray-haired set? Or does that fall to Dennis Woltering? Did they have to explain the term "MILF"?
Probably a typo. The 'o' and the 'i' key are just so close. Particularly at 1 a.m.
Thank you. I figured it was in the realm of oral considering she hits all the other marks according to this report. The real question now is WHO IS! this artisan of getting low, does she know what a celebrity she is and does she have a website, blog, or twitter so we can track her. She sounds fabulous!
Err no. DP isn't goin' deep... make that a D for Double and you're in the ballpark :0)
I'm glad someone asked because I didn't know what DP was either, but the possibilities were intriguing.
sh%t.. I'm lost again:( How do yall know about this and I don't? And I been going at it horizontally for... nevermind.
