(Credit: Screenshot by Dan Farber/CNET)
You know that wooden chair Clint Eastwood was talking to during tonight's speech at the Republican National Convention? It already has its own Twitter account. At least two actually.
For those who might have missed it (but expect to hear plenty about it during upcoming RNC post-mortems), the iconic action actor spent part of his moment in the convention spotlight chatting with an empty chair that was supposed to represent President Obama. And if presidents can have their own Twitter accounts, why can't chairs that are standing in as presidents?
Invisible Obama (bio: Stage left of Clint Eastwood) sent out its first Tweet at about 6:20 p.m. PT. It's been busy tweeting since: "The GOP built me." "When Mitt Romney says 'Mr. Chairman', do you think he's referring to me?"
As of this writing, the account had more than 22,000 followers.
Also among the masses tweeting away their real-time RNC impressions: Clint's Empty Chair, which as of now has just over 1,500 followers, far fewer than Invisible Obama, but is still getting one-liners in.
"Geez Clint...I think you were mad at the... [Read more]
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