August 11, 2012 · 10:16 pm

Should I be worried?

Received the following notification earlier today – somehow I doubt these guys are interested in my views on Greenwich real estate:

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23 Responses to Should I be worried?

  1. Boss Rojeck
    August 11, 2012 at 10:29 pm

    Our friends in the masonry union just wanna know your shoe size.

  2. Anonymous
    August 12, 2012 at 5:19 am

    Their name says communcations workers but they’ve branched out into organizing state and health related employees…you must have hit their radar with some of your recent posts.
    From their website:
    CWA members work in telecommunications, broadcasting, cable TV, journalism, publishing, manufacturing, airlines, customer service, government service, health care, education and other fields.
    http://www.cwa-union.org/pages/about_cwa/

  3. Anonymous
    August 12, 2012 at 5:26 am

    Uh, also, gotta wonder about that twitter account, it’s following a pretty eclectic group of tweeters from underaged female students to hip hop artists to cabinet makers and more. Very weird.

  4. Libertarian Advocate
    August 12, 2012 at 5:49 am

    Alinskyite intimidation tactics; time to get that CPL dawdler.

  5. Twick or Tweet?
    August 12, 2012 at 6:00 am

    Spam tweeters search for key words in your profile to “follow” you. They don’t actually want to follow your blog, they are merely hoping to get some traffic from your readers. But you can block them if you don’t want them hanging around. You have several spammers following you: just click the followers tab on your Twitter home page and have a good laugh. They are harmless for the most part so you really can leave them there.

  6. Anonymous
    August 12, 2012 at 6:50 am

    @Twick, I thought it might be a spammer too but I linked to their twitter account from the union’s official website. Weird list of whom they’re following though.

  7. Twick or Tweet?
    August 12, 2012 at 7:02 am

    @Anonymous: maybe not spam in the sense of email spam, but bot twitter traffic, not someone actually wanting to follow FWIW. Agree? I have 350+ followers and maybe 50 are weird ones, like this. I always block them.

  8. Moveon.org(asm)
    August 12, 2012 at 9:02 am

    o/t but 82-year old Soros is getting hitched, again. The 40 year old woman was quoted as saying: I Love Him for his Mind, Not his Money. Sure honey. Sure.
    http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/soros_to_marry_again_at_q6JSxzEDniUSmzYIMnMktK

    • Chris Fountain
      August 12, 2012 at 9:56 am

      Notice that the article says that Soros is staying at his “house” in the Hamptons. His spokesman, addressing the issue of a pre-nuptial agreement, notes that “the majority of Mr. Soros’s estate will be going to charity after his death”. So this old, greedy lecher lives the life of a billionaire while urging the imposition of tax laws designed to prevent others from accumulating wealth but intends to enjoy his own money until he no longer needs it? I’m somehow not impressed with his generosity.

  9. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
    August 12, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    What the hell is Tomika thinking? She’s pretty and smart enough to have any man, but she chooses a rotten scumbag commie loser letch like Soros?

  10. FF
    August 12, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    Twitter is just flat out stupid. I await the day that someone laments the failed IPO of this stupid 140 character means to self gratification

  11. Geek Squad
    August 12, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    FF: no surprise at your completely lame Luddite comments. Twitter is exceptionally interesting, if you follow the right people. It’s not about what you, Frank, would say, It’s about what the people you choose to follow say. Whether democrats in Connecticut or the nation, whether cricket players in India or Pakistan, whether realtors in Timbuktu, those 140 characters will give you the heads up to things that are happening worldwide, before the rest of the world knows. Sure, idiots Tweet too, morons like Rosanne Barr and Spike Lee. But for every loser tweet, there are straight-up informative honest, fascinating tweets. Did you know that the Mars rover Curiosity has its own Twitter handle and feed? You could get photos from Mars before they made it to AP or Reuters. Did you know that The Olympics has their own Twitter feed so you can get results before the Times posts them?

    Sorry to say this FF, but it’s YOU who is flat-out stupid, for not comprehending the merits of 140 characters. The world is full of innovation. You just have to embrace it, not bitch about it or else you will be left behind.

  12. Geek Squad
    August 12, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    Let me hammer home my point Mr. Fudruker. Here are a few ‘self-gratification’ Twitter folks, just from searching the word “cricket”.

    IndianPremierLeague
    @IPL
    Follow to get exclusive and real-time Indian Premier League news and updates.

    Mahendra Singh Dhoni
    @msdhoni
    Indian Cricket Team Captain, Biker, Gamer, hindi retro aficionado, an absolute pet-lover and perennially hungry for chicken butter masala

    ICC
    @cricketicc
    The International Cricket Council is the governing body of world cricket.

    And here’s a Tweet just a couple of hours ago. Self-gratification? I think NOT. Informative, if you follow cricket.

    Saj Sadiq ‏@Saj_PakPassion
    Abdur Rehman’s bowling figures today for Somerset against Nottinghamshire in the CB40. 8 overs, 1 maiden, 6 wickets for 16 runs #cricket

    I’m guessing if you wanted to find out this score or result, you would have sent a LETTER and waited a month for a reply?? Keep your head stuck in the sand if you choose FF, but really, your technical ignorance is unbecoming to the president of Lockwood and Mead.

    • Chris Fountain
      August 12, 2012 at 5:22 pm

      And at the end of the day, you have an entire collection of cricket stories. I like bugs as much as the next fellow, but follow them on the Internet? I think not.

  13. Geek Squad
    August 12, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    OY, two Luddites in one company? I give up.

  14. AJ
    August 12, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    CF, I doubt the money will be going to “charity” as in giving money to the Salvation Army, but more likely into a foundation where he can control his money and run his agenda from the grave, all to the financial benefit of those he “friends”.

  15. pulled up in OG
    August 12, 2012 at 10:32 pm

    Shouldn’t they be twickets when ya tweet ‘em?

  16. Libertarian Advocate
    August 13, 2012 at 5:40 am

    Hmmmm… At last, something I agree with FF about. Tweets are for Twits

  17. Geek Squad
    August 13, 2012 at 7:47 am

    This is my last comment about Tweeting and then I promise I’ll shut the eff up.

    Libertarian: You blog, n’est-ce pas? That’s no different than Tweeting. You are promoting your ideas in a social media format. Does blogging make you a boob? No, of course not, no more than tweeting makes you a twit. You could go one step farther and add a Twitter logo at the end of each of your posts so that people who read your stuff and find it interesting could pass it along in an easy format to others who want to read your words.

    And FWIW, for the love of God, get Lockwood Mead a Twitter handle. For now, no one has it. You search the two words and nothing. If you don’t, I will, and I’ll turn it into a porn site to teach you Luddites a lesson!

    Haffenreffer tweets all the time; his open houses, his listings, and personal stuff too. Call him and ask for advise. You can’t have a new website and not have all bells and whistles. It’s like getting a car but deciding you don’t need the tires. Really.

    Done.