by Heather Hastie | Nov 24, 2017 | Tweets
Any time you look at Twitter, there are multiple tweets about politics. Most of them take a strong partisan stance. Whenever I tweet about politics, I take a side too. It’s the same the world over. However, I notice that in the US there seems to be a much...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 14, 2017 | Tweets
Shock, horror! When I did my tweets post on Sunday, I missed the fact that the All Blacks had beaten the French in a test match that morning! In fact, I was so ill that day I forgot the match was even on. There were also a couple of bad losses for NZ sports teams over...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 10, 2017 | New Zealand, Simon's Cat, Tweets
I don’t know if there are any tweets about it because I haven’t looked, but a story in the Washington Post is causing a bit of a furore here. A USian living in NZ, Ben Mack, wrote a story for them called ‘How the far right is poisoning New...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 5, 2017 | New Zealand, Tweets
The All Blacks New Zealand has had five big wins in the sporting arena in the last 24 hours, so that’s what a large proportion of the tweets in this country are about. The biggest was the All Blacks vs the Barbarians (basically All Blacks “B”) at...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 2, 2017 | Tweets
I’m sure you can all guess what sort of tweets dominate the Twitter-verse today. It is, of course, yesterday’s terror attack in Manhattan. Yes, I know this post says 2 November. But though the attack was the 31st in NY, it was the 1st in NZ. Going one more...
