Cherie DarganEnglish Round Table, April 2009

I was amazed at how many cartoons mentioned twittering, Face book or MySpaceAlmost every media outlet, politician, and VIP has a twitter presence—Barak Obama twittersYou can read about twittering in blogs, newspapers, books, and even PEOPLE magazine.  There’s a list of top ten celebrities who twitterJennifer Aniston may have broken up with her boyfriend John Mayer because he was so hooked on Twitter that he wasn't paying enough attention to her 

Shaquille O’Neal Lance Armstrong Snoop Dog Britney Spears Dalai Lama John Hodgman (the PC guy on the Mac commercials) Claire McCaskill, Senator from Missouri Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Producer David Lynch Actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1878865_1878867_1878878,00.html

Many of these cartoons are from the Waterloo Courier and Des Moines Register

http://www.slideshare.net/chadrichards/top-25-twitter-cartoons

Great set of cartoons—I found several here The two chicken cartoons are from http://www.savagechickens.com/

I will post the entire PPT on my HCC website. http://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/faculty/cpost/

Cherie Dargan, cdargan@hawkeyecollege.edu Hawkeye Community College—Waterloo, IA