THE $134 BILLION TWEET

Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured via @ap

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) April 23, 2013

The hacktivist group Anonymous caused a ruckus this week with its most high profile operation to date. Upon gaining access to the official Twitter account for the Associated Press, they posted a rogue tweet about an incident at the White House. The tweet was deleted moments later, but not before it rippled across the Internet at the speed of light. Seconds after the tweet hit its effects were felt on Wall St in the form of a $134 billion sell off. The NYSE quickly corrected itself, but the incident proved that even a single tweet can have massive consequences.

–Aaron, 99 words

Buy It With A Tweet

American Express now lets you purchase physical products just by sending a tweet with a particular hashtag. When you sign up for the Amex Sync program, it binds your credit card to your Twitter account and uses the billing address you already have on file. Once enrolled all you have to do is tweet a special hashtag being promoted on the Amex Twitter, confirm your order with a second tweet and the product is dispatched to your doorstep via free 2-day shipping. A new Kindle is just a tweet away with #BuyKindleFireHD.

–Aaron, 92 words

Every news organization reported on the presidential election results, but Now This News may have found one of the most unique ways of displaying results in real time, using Twitter to announce each confirmation with a custom designed piece of ASCII art for each state:

┈┈┈╲┃╱┈┈┈┈#Calling┈┈┈┈┈━☆▔▏┈┈┈┈Nevada┈┈┈┈╱▕▂━▔━▂┈┈┈4┈┈┏┓┈┈╱┈Ⓛⓐⓢ┈╲┈Obama┈┃┃┈┈╲Ⓥⓔⓖⓐⓢ╱┈┈┈┈┈┃┣┓┈▕▔━▂━▔┈┈┈┏┳┳┏┛┗┓▕▕┈┈┈┏━┳┳╋┫┃

— NowThis News (@nowthisnews) November 7, 2012