Category: Alyssa Milano Should Re-Tweet Me

Alyssa Milano in Lingerie
UPDATE: ‘#GoKings’ Raises $29,374 for Children’s Hospital in NHL Hashtag Battle

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Just because we can:

Obviously, there is no need to justify Alyssa Milano in lingerie. But I was noticing it’s kind of been a bit too much all-politics-all-the-time here and I figured the readers might be getting bored. However, it’s also for a good cause, because look what Alyssa just Tweeted:

So go Tweet “#GoKings” (until 9 pm. PT, which is midnight ET) and help raise money for a good cause. I think you’ll find it easier to do if you’ll Tweet with both hands.

UPDATE: OMG! OMG! OMG!

UPDATE II: Shortly after 11:20 p.m. ET, guess who joined in? Only the world’s most famous hockey mom, that’s who!

Pretty cool, huh? Here’s the story of the NHL hashtag battle:

When the two clubs meet Saturday at the Pepsi Center in Denver, fans will be encouraged to log onto their club’s corresponding Twitter Page and tweet information with the hashtag “#GoKings” or “#GoAvs.” For every tweet with those hashtags during the game, $1 will be donated to that team’s cancer-related charity of choice. The contest will begin at the opening puck drop (6 p.m. PT) and conclude at the game’s final buzzer. The Kings will donate to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and the Avalanche and Kroenke Sports Charities will donate to local cancer organizations involved with their Hockey Fights Cancer initiative.

It’s now past midnight, so it’s over. According to the LA Kings (who won the game 6-4), they raised $29,374 while the Avalanche raised $13,876. That’s a lot of Tweets! I know I spent half the night just mindlessly refreshing my feed, killing time with some slot games on my phone, and waiting to see if any other unexpected celebrities were going to crash the hashtag. It isn’t every day you see Alyssa Milano and Sarah Palin inadvertently teaming up on the timeline, but both fanbases really stepped up tonight for a great cause.

They Said It Couldn’t Be Done . . .

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. . . which is the kind of double-dog-dare-ya thing you should never say to me. Ladies and gentlemen, the Tweet Heard ‘Round the World:

My response was appropriately dignified:

How long has this been my goal? Remember, this all started when Alyssa Milano re-Tweeted a post by Mickey Kaus last October. At that time, she had more than 300,000 followers — she’s now got more than 1 million — and everybody said it would never happen.

Not only was she a famous Hollywood celebrity but, as I explained at The American Spectator:

Some of my friends say that Alyssa is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. . . . Surely, however, she would not allow mere politics to prejudice her Twitter habits.

Whenever you set out to achieve great things, you will immediately be told that it can’t be done. And if you listen to the naysayers, you’ll never achieve anything. Had I heeded the voices of discouragement– “Ah, she’s just another liberal Hollywood bimbo” — this never would have happened.

Fortune favors the bold. Those who dare, do.

Or, as my father often told me, “Son, ‘can’t’ never could.”

In a follow-up Tweet, Alyssa paid tribute to my persistence:

Yeah. You can ask Mrs. Other McCain about that.

Many thanks are due. Dan Collins of Piece of Work in Progress was an early supporter of the “Just One Tweet, Alyssa” campaign, and many others joined in. For nearly a year, it was a running joke — until it became a reality.

So thank you, Alyssa Milano.

And all you people who said it would never happen?

Hit the freaking tip jar!

For the First Time Ever, Rush is Wrong

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“I’m not going to do Twitter. There’s no way to make any money on Twitter. Twitter is just fad type stuff.”
— Rush Limbaugh

Twitter is a communication tool. Millions of people — including Alyssa Milano’s 1,038,358 followers — use Twitter to communicate. And you can’t communicate with those people if you’re not on Twitter.

Think about it, Rush: In the time it takes to type 140 characters and hit “Tweet,” you can send your thoughts to however many people follow you. (Which would be a lot of people. Maybe even Alyssa Milano.)

And you know what else, Rush? That Tweet can include a link to an item on your Web page, which is of course loaded with obscene profit opportunities. As a shameless capitalist blogger, I saw from the outset how useful Twitter could be in terms of promoting my site.

While your radio audience is vastly larger than my blog readership, there are nevertheless people on Twitter who don’t have an opportunity to listen to you regularly, and might benefit from getting the El Rushbo’s timeless insights via Twitter.

The communication on Twitter is two-way, of course. The people you follow on Twitter can send you tips on breaking news, and so forth. And you can actually have conversations via Twitter that are pretty cool, since anyone who follows your feed can jump in and add their two cents.

Hey, Mark Levin’s using Twitter. If you’re going to be on the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush, don’t you think you should ask F. Lee Levin why he’s active in this new medium?

All this stuff may seem like an Internet version of the CB radio craze, but it’s not. And if you’re going to be on Facebook, you definitely need to be on Twitter.

Trust me, Rush: Join Twitter.

And please re-Tweet me sometime.

I’ve almost given up on Alyssa Milano. Almost.

(Hat-tip: Kathy Shaidle.)

Alyssa Milano Re-Tweeted This, So . . .

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. . . I take that as a hint she wants me to blog about it:

Top 10 Reasons I Did Not RT Your DM Request
This article is not meant to offend anyone, but I am sure it will. If you have ever been asked to retweet links for someone, at least I think you can sympathize. I have spent hours defending my right to say no to a retweet request. At some point I realized it’s time to just lay it out for everyone so you know where I am coming from. . . .

The author, Susan Elaine Cooper, then goes on to list ten important reasons why people don’t get re-Tweeted, none of which are, “Because I’m Alyssa Freaking Milano and You’re Just a Creepy Old Blogger.”

Which means there’s still hope.

I’ll have to discuss strategic Twitterology with Dan Collins, who is in charge of the Let’s Get Alyssa to Re-Tweet Stacy Just So He’ll Finally Shut Up About It campaign.

Remember, this all started with Mickey Kaus, back when Alyssa had fewer than 400,000 followers. She’s now closing in on 1 million followers, many of whom are following her in anticipation of the glorious moment when I’ll finally get that coveted RT from . . . 

AMERICA’S TWEETHEART!