Marc Ambinder has done the interwebbing a great service by profiling one of its unsung heroes, the anonymous Twitter presence and Swampland hall-of-famer @pourmecoffee. He is, it turns out, a 45-year-old guy who works in the recruiting business, and does not want his name in the tubes. Most importantly, before he became Twitfamous, he started as one of us.
PMC did not know about Twitter until late in 2008. His exposure to the swamp land was as a frequent commenter on the Swampland Blog on Time, tended to by Ana Marie Cox. Twitter was perfect-er because PMC is a “blurter.”
“Probably no one would be following me if it wasn’t for Time’s Karen Tumulty and Ana Marie Cox. They knew me from Swampland, and were early followers. If they hadn’t retweeted me, I’d be unknown and would probably have moved on by now to really weird and perverted Chatroulette dress-up games. I think everyone is glad that didn’t happen, as far as you know. Now I can I thank them and, by linking them to me, effectively end their careers. Which is nice. You’re welcome.”
If you still don’t know what all the fuss is about, read some of Pourmecoffee’s tweets here. Ambinder selects a few greatest hits:
Playing Palin Scrabble. Not a lot of fun. We just make stuff up, get challenged and quit.
Cheney makes better sense if you add, “– , Clarice” to the end of his sentences. “Torture worked, Clarice.”
I’m not saying Santa isn’t from the North Pole. I’m just saying produce the birth certificate, that’s all.
The hits keep coming. That’s the good thing.