Update: We’ve been told by the (fake) man himself, this Twitter account has been around since April. It’s just upping the game with the recent news.

The internet works fast and it means business. (Fake) Dan McLaughlin has a Twitter account.

via twitter.com/FakeDanMclaughl

It’s official. This whole Kings of Leon/Poopstock thing is out of control. How do we know? When fake Twitter accounts start hitting its out of control.

View his profile at: twitter.com/kolpigeon

OMG! Kurt Warner iz such a gr8 writer. Hs prose jst sEm 2 croS boundaries. LOL. JK. IDK. wutevA.

Here’s some examples:

Anybody out there no where my IPAD is? Bec, of the 8ppl in this house, of corse no 1 has seen it or played w it all day! Must b my imposter! #

Drove past car w/ sticker “boobs r power”, my life suddenly started 2 make sense & y I have always felt powerless! Darn it! #

At a bakery waiting 4 dinner & all the sweets r tellin me 2 take them home 4 late-nite snack! Should I cheat on my cereal? #

Brain damage is a serious problem in the NFL…clearly.

More @ Kurt’s Twitter page

The Mizzou wide-reciever that had a career year in 2009 but was left undrafted last April has found another way to entertain us all that doesn’t involve touchdowns: Insane ramblings on his Twitter stream.

This is way better than watching a Mizzou game. Here are a few examples:

Hmm. Begging for line-sitters is something that NFL players can pull off maybe…

See this is brilliant. Danario has found a way to make the label “Twitter Follower” more demeaning by incorporating the term “bitches” in there.

That’s what she said.

Apparently this was Mr. Alexander’s first trip to South County.

Sounds about right at this point.

So that’s cool and all that you want go out and drive around pretending to be Bill Paxton or Helen Hunt from Twister KMOV weather people, but you’re annoying your Twitter followers that really just want the weather. They didn’t sign up for…

They signed up for:

Going to be rainy today. Bring a jacket.

They really don’t care that…

They just care if the ball game is going to be rained out.

…and lastly, they could care less about…

…wait. Nevermind. Kinda want to see where this goes now.

Word is out that Major League Baseball has told their employed beat writers, who write for the MLB.com sub-sites for each time, must refrain from “tweeting” about anything other than baseball from here on out. These new restrictions hit home for local stlcardinals.com writer Matt Leach who’s widely followed Twitter account gets lots of use throughout the day.

Aaron Gleeman reporting for NBCsports.com

Multiple sources have confirmed to me that Major League Baseball is cracking down on Twitter usage, ordering MLB.com writers to cease tweeting about all non-baseball topics and scolding players for their Twitter usage in general.

I’m told a big part of the policy change is due to MLB not wanting non-baseball tweets showing up on the MLB.com Twitter feed/aggregator, but banning every writer from non-baseball talk because of that is like killing a fly with a sledgehammer.

In fact, after examining Leach’s twitter activity,  it appears that this mandate may have gone out on April 27th. Not only is that the last appearance of a “non-baseball tweet“, it was immediately followed by this:

Directing people to a new, and locked, Twitter account.

This is so dumb. God forbid the public like a beat writer for anything other than baseball, which they all talk about lots anyway because their freaking beat writers!

I love baseball, but the people in charge make some amazingly short-sighted decisions (Hello MLB.com video blackouts!) far too often.

Have you been reading the St. Louis City Mayor’s Twitter account lately? Damn he’s getting bossy. In the last 12 hours Frankie Slay has told us what to wear, what to go see, and what to do with our weekend.

First off let us say that when we glance at his tweets we see: “If you select your work clothes the night before, remember to think RED. #fags” Don’t you? Sorry, but you will now. Now maybe this is when we’ll loose you, but we are always bummed to find we read it wrong. Come on. You know you would laugh your ass off if you ever saw: “Hey lets make sure we are nice to any visiting Cubs fans this weekend. #fags”?!

In other, more pertinent, thoughts, who the hell lays out their work clothes the night before? You remembering to write your bus number on your hand too and have that permission slip pinned to your shirt?

For the record, this tweet would have been spectacular for a trailing “#fags” hash tag.

No. No, we won’t.

Don’t be that guy Mayor Slay. Don’t be the “go outside” guy. There are lots of lovely, enriching, great activities indoors every day even when its nice outside. What about people that are bed ridden because they are so fat they can’t move their legs? How are they supposed to go outside Mayor?! You’re just taunting them with your “executive order”. We bet they would love to go outside and run around and continue eating that 7 layer cake they somehow got from somewhere…seriously, have you ever noticed that fat people can always manage to produce food at a moments notice? One time we saw a fat guy in St. Louis drinking out of a Checkers cup! A Checkers cup! There aren’t even Checkers out here (here they are Rally’s). How did he get that? Is there some fat guy food physics I’m not aware of?

Where were we? Oh yeah, Mayor Slay killed a guy.  Oh no wait. He just hates bed ridden fat people.  Doesn’t sound as bad now does it? You owe us one Mayor.

Update! Here’s the audio from my visit to The Mindset:

Mike Visits “The Mindset” on KTRS 550AM

Original Post:

Our illustrious and crazy awesome editor, Mike Flynn, will be on KTRS 550 am’s The Mindset with John Brown and Trish Gazall today at 2:40pm talking about Facebook, Twitter and the new Google Buzz.

Take a listen and see how many times he can plug this website without Charles Jaco busting in from the lunch room and trying to choke him live on the air.

Its been confirmed through a few sources that it is in fact the Matt Holliday tweeting at twitter.com/mattholliday7.

Not only that, but after reading over his stream of “tweets” we can say Matt Holliday seems pretty cool. Below is a sampling of some of his best mind droppings.

Matt Holiday’s thoughts on…

Turkey Bacon:

not sure turkey bacon has earned the right to be called bacon, maybe breakfast turkey strips

Brett Favre:

qb no no, roll right throw back left to middle

Former football players getting fat: [Editor's Note: Watched this and thought the same thing.]

Duece is enjoying the retirement gumbo a little to much

And lastly, the offseason:

On my way to workout with trainer, trying to pump myself up. Ready for spring training! ST is way easier than offseason workouts

Follow Holliday at mattholliday7 and while you are at it, follow us at punchingkitty!

St. Louis native and creator of the freakishly popular social network Twitter has been promising something new from his brain for a while now.  Today the big black sheet was pulled off the shiny new website for that idea: Square.

Today the Square team is focused on bringing immediacy, transparency, and approachability to the world of payments: an inherently social interaction each of us participates in daily. We’re starting with a limited beta and rolling out to everyone in early 2010.

Basically the idea is that any business can take credit cards and swipe them on their phone, while the customer gets greater flexibility and possibly added security.  Its a very cool idea and we at Punching Kitty wish Dorsey well in this latest idea.

We’ve attached a quick interview and Square demo from TechCrunch below.