Tsunami Of Public Rage Unleashed As #FuckYouWashington Hashtag Takes Twitter By Storm

[Donnachaidh]

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/07/28/tsunami-public-rage-unleashed-fuckyouwashington-hashtag-takes-twitter-storm-43591/

Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at the City University of New York, an expert on new media, and the author of ‘What Would Google Do?’ has started a shit storm on twitter with the hashtag #fuckyouwashington.

The catchphrase has captured the rage and anger of the American and has sparked and out lash against politicians in Washington D.C. for everything from the BP Gulf Oil Spill, to the use of terrorism to violate American’s civil rights to not holding Bush and Obama accountable for torture.
“Fuck” is not profane. Willfully ruining the economy for political gain, that is profane. #fuckyouwashington

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If you’re the type of person who spends your weekend on Twitter, then you’re already well aware of new-media prophet bloviator Jeff Jarvis’ #fuckyouwashington campaign: his attempt to make that hashtag trend on Twitter, an expression of our collective anger over the stalled debt-crisis talks. Non-tweeps might even know the story by now, as CBS News’ What’s Trending blog posted this yesterday morning, followed by Slate’s David Weigel.

On his blog, Buzz Machine, Jarvis explains the hashtag’s genesis:

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