Fed #News Friday – The Federal Reserve is now on Twitter!
March 16th, 2012
This week the Federal Reserve Bank, apparently looking for a little abuse, officially joined millions of users on the popular social media website, Twitter. Yes, that’s right: you can now follow Ben Bernanke and company on Twitter. The Fed’s new official Twitter handle is . What on earth would the world’s most powerful central bank tweet about? The comedic possibilities are rich! I’m envisioning a drunken Bernanke reaching for his Blackberry one night and tweeting:
“printing more money lol”
“omg i cant blieve i just tweeted that! omg tim is going to kill me #fml”
“how do you delete tweets?”
“you guyz srsly its not inflation its WINflation! #winning”
“@ whtvr i do NOT look like this http://youtu.be/GTQnarzmTOc”
“@whitehouse how do you handle all these hate tweets? i gotta couple ppl for your targeted kill list lmao”
“spilled wine all over my tie”
“@ http://bit.ly/u7TnZS wtf is this bs??? srsly stop tweeting me!”
“@ whtvr ur animation sux and your bloggers arent funny at all.”
“Dear pollens upsetting my allergies, plese go away and die. sincerely -Ben ps: luuvvvv my bffs for taking me out tonight!”
“@ at the grocery store and omg this stuff IS gettin more expensive! i gotta stop printing so much lol -nah jk rofl!”
“awww snap paul krugman just got here! #awesome”
Okay, that’s enough. I could seriously stay up all night writing these. The best part of this has been watching all the things people are tweeting to the Federal Reserve. Just type their handle @FederalReserve into Twitter’s search bar to watch the hilarity unfold in real time. Here were a few of my favorites:
Thanks to the @FederalReserve arrival, the value of all tweets will collapse by 98% in a few years.
Dear @FederalReserve Please print oil. Now
Thanks to Operation Tweet, maximum message length on Twitter will now inflate by 2% per year @FederalReserve
As of this morning @FederalReserve is officially on twitter. Great news as it means US debt will have to be limited to at most 140 zeroes!
Hey Ben Bernanke now that you’re on twitter @FederalReserve will you be live tweeting which banks are getting cash at 0.00001 in interest?
Stop printing money out of thin air! @federalreserve #EndTheFed
@RonPaul Dude, new to Twitter: @federalreserve. You can audit their tweets.
@FirstTeamTommy @seanhackbarth @federalreserve shall we expect Quantitweetive Tweasing to marginalize the value of each tweet?
Horrible idea. RT @federalreserve: Welcome to the official Twitter channel of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Instantly becomes most boring feed on Twitter? RT @thehill: The Fed joins Twitter at @federalreserve http://bit.ly/zV8ybd
@federalreserve gaining about 1,000 followers per hour as mobs of curious rubberneckers line up to witness the train wreck
So yeah– maybe next time instead of throwing us a lame bone like a boring Twitter account, the Federal Reserve should give us some real transparency and let us in for a full, top-to-bottom, public audit of the institution that creates our money.
And yes, we will so be tweeting this post to the Fed.
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