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Secret_Policeman's_Ball_Statler_&_Waldorf_On_Twitter — Secret Policeman's Ball Statler & Waldorf On Twitter

Statler & Waldorf on Twitter (at The Secret Policeman's Ball in 2012).

Twitter-MuppetsStudio — The Muppets Studio's Twitter picture as it appeared from 2009-early May 2011

Twitter is a microblogging and social networking webservice that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide.

The Muppets Studio

In November 2009 The Muppets Studio established an official Twitter presence. The studio shares updates on Muppet appearances, events, news, and other announcements.

Twitter feeds:

@TheMuppets - The Muppets Studio (originally @MuppetsStudio)
@MissPiggy - Miss Piggy (September 2012) (originally @RealMissPiggy)
@SpicyPrawn - Pepe the King Prawn (January 2014)
@KermitTheFrog - Kermit the Frog (March 2014)
@TheMuppetsABC - The Muppets ABC (May 2015)
@FozzieBear - Fozzie Bear (May 2012) (originally @FozzieJokes)
@ElectricMayhem - The Electric Mayhem (August 2015)
@Rizzo - Rizzo the Rat (August 2015)
@GonzotheGreat - Gonzo (August 2015)
@GoferScooter - Scooter (November 2015)
@unclebydeadly - Uncle Deadly (January 2016)

A series of trailer and TV spots for Muppets Most Wanted spoofed movie trailers that use tweets as praise for the movie they are promoting with comments from "critics across the Internet." Disney's marketing team set up a number of Twitter accounts before the promos debuts which include Muppet-related content and the quotes in the ads.

Sesame Street

File:Shorty-awards---grover---jimmy-wales.jpg

Grover at the Shorty Awards with Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia.

The official Sesame Street Twitter feed, @sesamestreet, features regular tweets from Sesame Street characters. Among the characters who have Tweeted are Grover, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird, Bert, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Rosita and Oscar the Grouch.

From November 2009 to at least March 2010, Christine M. Ferraro was the sole person writing the tweets.^[1]

Adding to Sesame Workshop's many Twitter accounts, May 2, 2012 The Count established his very own Twitter accounts where he counts the number of tweets he's tweeted.

The official Sesame Street Twitter feed, @sesamestreet, tied with @WholeFoods for Best Brand, at the 2010 Shorty Awards. Acceptance speeches were to be 140 characters or less; Grover attended on behalf of Sesame Workshop. His speech listed Hamlet, Tarzan and Superman, before CNN personality Rick Sanchez corrected Grover on the concept.[1] The account has been responded to by other high profile accounts, including NASA.

Twitter feeds:

@AbbyCadabbySST - Abby Cadabby
@bertsesame - Bert
@BigBird - Big Bird
@CountVonCount - Count Von Count
@elmo - Elmo
@Grover - Grover
@MeCookieMonster - Cookie Monster
@MrSnuffleupagus - Mr. Snuffleupagus
@OscarTheGrouch - Oscar the Grouch
@PlazaSesamo - Plaza Sesamo
@SesameCommunity - Sesame Street Communities
@SesameErnie - Ernie
@SesameJapan - Sesame Street Partners Japan (SSPJ)
@SesamePlace - Sesame Place
@SesameStLive - Sesame Street Live
@SesameStreetESP - ¡Sesame Street en Español!
@YipYipMartians - Yip Yip Martians

The Jim Henson Company

In March 2009 the Jim Henson Company established an official Twitter presence. The company shares regular tweets featuring news, insider information, exclusive pictures, contents and give-aways, and other unique updates. The feed is maintained by Allyson Smith, the company's Vice President of New Media. Additional feeds for the company's family entertainment, podcast, various stage shows and other projects have launched as well.

Twitter feeds:

References

In a 2010 episode of Sesame Street, Telly bounces out of control on his iPogo through Hooper's Store. Big Bird yells for him to watch out, as he's trying to "tweet on [his] BirdBerry."
In 2010, the British Columbian branch of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police accidentally tweeted their "Like" for the YouTube video of Cookie Monster's SNL audition.^[2]
On September 30, 2011, the Twitter parody hashtag "#OccupySesameStreet" made its debut, a reference to the Occupy Wall Street protests that began earlier that month in lower Manhattan. Tweets parodying the positions of Occupy Wall Street protestors have begun circulating on Twitter. Examples:
- "Why do they need a Big Bird?! It's a recession, what about a medium sized bird? #occupysesamestreet"
- "Truly outrageous that 99% of the cookies are consumed by 1% of the monsters on PBS. #occupysesamestreet"
In a 2011 episode of Sesame Street, the Good Birds Club turns Big Bird away for having big feet. The lead says they should "tweet" about it and begin chirping.
In an interview for CNET, Kermit is asked about the usefullness of Twitter and Facebook, to which he replies, "it's so much easier to stay in touch with fans, friends, and especially family. When you have 2,342 brothers and sisters like I do, Facebook and Twitter save a lot of late night phone calls."^[3]
At The Secret Policeman's Ball in 2012, Statler and Waldorf wondered why everyone was playing with their cell phones, to which John Oliver (referred to as Harry Potter by the two curmudgeons) answered "They're tweeting!" Waldorf replied "Yeah, eating those sidewalk hot dogs will do that to you." Oliver corrected them "No, they're tweeting, as in Twitter. They're sharing their opinion on any subject, no matter how negative and personally offensive that opinion might be." Statler and Waldorf's reaction: "Negative? Personally offensive? I think we found our calling!" and "Quick, to the twittering!"
In "Going, Going, Gonzo", Kermit says people will live Tweet Gonzo's stunt.
In "Swine Song", Pache says he wants people to Tweet to the show.
In "A Tail of Two Piggies", Piggy starts a hashtag #Unveilthetail on Twitter. Also Fozzie plays a game called "Who Tweeted It?" with Animal.

Sources

↑ "Cookie Monster storms Twitter as @sesamestreet gains a following", Los Angeles Times blogs, April 9, 2010.
↑ "RCMP posts Cookie Monster video to Twitter", The Canadian Press via CTV News British Columbia, November 25, 2010.
↑ "Meet Kermit the Frog, gadget geek." Terdiman, Daniel. December 7, 2011. CNET news.

External links

Wikipedia has an article related to:

Twitter

"Tweet Like a Monster", Sparksheet.com's Nov 2010 interview with Dan Lewis, Sesame Workshop's new-media director
Muppet Wiki on Twitter

[1] "Cookie Monster storms Twitter as @sesamestreet gains a following", Los Angeles Times blogs, April 9, 2010.

[2] "RCMP posts Cookie Monster video to Twitter", The Canadian Press via CTV News British Columbia, November 25, 2010.

[3] "Meet Kermit the Frog, gadget geek." Terdiman, Daniel. December 7, 2011. CNET news.

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+[[File:Secret_Policeman's_Ball_Statler_&_Waldorf_On_Twitter|thumb|300px|Statler & Waldorf on Twitter (at [[The Secret Policeman's Ball]] in 2012).]]
 [[Image:Twitter-MuppetsStudio.png|thumb|300px|The Muppets Studio's Twitter picture as it appeared from 2009-early May 2011]]
 '''Twitter''' is a microblogging and social networking webservice that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide.
+==The Muppets Studio==
-==@MuppetsStudio==
 In November 2009 [[The_Walt_Disney_Company#The_Muppets_Studio_.282004-present.29|The Muppets Studio]] established an official Twitter presence. The studio shares updates on Muppet appearances, events, news, and other announcements.
-'''Twitter feed:'''
+'''Twitter feeds:'''
-* [http://twitter.com/muppetsstudio @muppetsstudio] - The Muppets Studio
+* [http://twitter.com/TheMuppets @TheMuppets] - [[The Muppets Studio]] (originally @MuppetsStudio)
+* [https://twitter.com/MissPiggy @MissPiggy] - [[Miss Piggy]] (September 2012) (originally @RealMissPiggy)
+* [http://twitter.com/SpicyPrawn @SpicyPrawn] - [[Pepe the King Prawn]] (January 2014)
+* [https://twitter.com/KermitTheFrog @KermitTheFrog] - [[Kermit the Frog]] (March 2014)
+* [https://twitter.com/TheMuppetsABC @TheMuppetsABC] - [[The Muppets (2015)|The Muppets ABC]] (May 2015)
+* [https://twitter.com/FozzieBear @FozzieBear] - [[Fozzie Bear]] (May 2012) (originally @FozzieJokes)
+* [https://twitter.com/ElectricMayhem @ElectricMayhem] - [[The Electric Mayhem]] (August 2015)
+* [https://twitter.com/Rizzo @Rizzo] - [[Rizzo the Rat]] (August 2015)
+* [https://twitter.com/GonzotheGreat @GonzotheGreat] - [[Gonzo]] (August 2015)
+* [https://twitter.com/GoferScooter @GoferScooter] - [[Scooter]] (November 2015)
+* [https://twitter.com/unclebydeadly @unclebydeadly] - [[Uncle Deadly]] (January 2016)
+A [[Muppets_Most_Wanted_trailers#Across_the_Internet|series of trailer and TV spots]] for ''[[Muppets Most Wanted]]'' spoofed movie trailers that use tweets as praise for the movie they are promoting with comments from "critics across the Internet." Disney's marketing team set up a number of Twitter accounts before the promos debuts which include Muppet-related content and the quotes in the ads.
-==@RealMissPiggy==
+<gallery spacing=small widths=120 orientation=landscape>
-In September 2012 [[Miss Piggy]] established her presence on Twitter with an official account.
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+MMW-twitter-allbetsysroff.png|[https://twitter.com/allbetsysroff @allbetsysroff]
+</gallery>
+==Sesame Street==
-'''Twitter feed'''
-* [https://twitter.com/RealMissPiggy @RealMissPiggy] - Miss Piggy
-==@SesameStreet==
 [[Image:Shorty-awards---grover---jimmy-wales.jpg|thumb|300px|Grover at the Shorty Awards with Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia.]]
 The official Sesame Street Twitter feed, @sesamestreet, features regular tweets from Sesame Street characters. Among the characters who have Tweeted are [[Grover]], [[Abby Cadabby]], [[Big Bird]], [[Bert]], [[Cookie Monster]], [[Elmo]], [[Rosita]] and [[Oscar the Grouch]].
 From November 2009 to at least March 2010, [[Christine M. Ferraro]] was the sole person writing the tweets.<ref>"[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/04/cookie-monster-storms-twitter-as-sesamestreet-gains-a-following.html Cookie Monster storms Twitter as @sesamestreet gains a following]", ''Los Angeles Times'' blogs, April 9, 2010.</ref>
+Adding to Sesame Workshop's many Twitter accounts, May 2, 2012 [[The Count]] established his very own Twitter accounts where he counts the number of tweets he's tweeted.
 The official Sesame Street Twitter feed, @sesamestreet, tied with @WholeFoods for Best Brand, at the 2010 Shorty Awards. Acceptance speeches were to be 140 characters or less; [[Grover]] attended on behalf of [[Sesame Workshop]]. His speech listed [[Hamlet]], [[Tarzan]] and [[Superman]], before [[CNN]] personality Rick Sanchez corrected Grover on the concept.[http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/shorty.awards.twitter/?hpt=Sbin] The account has been responded to by other high profile accounts, including [[NASA]].
 '''Twitter feeds:'''
-* [http://twitter.com/sesamestreet @sesamestreet] - [[Sesame Street]]
+* [https://twitter.com/sesamestreet @SesameStreet] - [[Sesame Street]]
-* [http://twitter.com/sesamejapan @sesamejapan] - [[Sesame Street Partners Japan (SSPJ)]] (mostly retweets of @sesamestreet)
+* [https://twitter.com/sesameworkshop @SesameWorkshop] - [[Sesame Workshop]]
-* [http://twitter.com/sesameworkshop @sesameworkshop] - [[Sesame Workshop]]
+*[https://twitter.com/AbbyCadabbySST @AbbyCadabbySST] - [[Abby Cadabby]]
+*[https://twitter.com/bertsesame @bertsesame] - [[Bert]]
+*[https://twitter.com/BigBird @BigBird] - [[Big Bird]]
+*[https://twitter.com/CountVonCount @CountVonCount] - [[The Count|Count Von Count]]
+*[https://twitter.com/elmo @elmo] - [[Elmo]]
+*[https://twitter.com/Grover @Grover] - [[Grover]]
+*[https://twitter.com/MeCookieMonster @MeCookieMonster] - [[Cookie Monster]]
+*[https://twitter.com/MrSnuffleupagus @MrSnuffleupagus] - [[Mr. Snuffleupagus]]
+*[https://twitter.com/OscarTheGrouch @OscarTheGrouch] - [[Oscar the Grouch]]
+*[https://twitter.com/PlazaSesamo @PlazaSesamo] - [[Plaza Sesamo]]
+*[https://twitter.com/SesameCommunity @SesameCommunity] - [[:Category:Sesame Street Initiatives|Sesame Street Communities]]
+*[https://twitter.com/SesameErnie @SesameErnie] - [[Ernie]]
+*[https://twitter.com/sesamejapan @SesameJapan] - [[Sesame Street Partners Japan (SSPJ)]]
+*[https://twitter.com/sesameplace @SesamePlace] - [[Sesame Place]]
+*[https://twitter.com/sesamestlive @SesameStLive] - [[Sesame Street Live]]
+*[https://twitter.com/SesameStreetESP @SesameStreetESP] - [[Spanish on Sesame Street|¡Sesame Street en Español!]]
+*[https://twitter.com/YipYipMartians @YipYipMartians] - [[martians|Yip Yip Martians]]
+==The Jim Henson Company==
-==@HensonCompany==
 In March 2009 [[the Jim Henson Company]] established an official Twitter presence. The company shares regular tweets featuring news, insider information, exclusive pictures, contents and give-aways, and other unique updates. The feed is maintained by Allyson Smith, the company's Vice President of New Media. Additional feeds for the company's family entertainment, podcast, various stage shows and other projects have launched as well.
 '''Twitter feeds:'''
-* [http://twitter.com/hensoncompany @hensoncompany] - [[The Jim Henson Company]]
+* [http://twitter.com/hensoncompany @HensonCompany] - [[The Jim Henson Company]]
-* [http://twitter.com/hensonparents @hensonparents] - [[The Jim Henson Company#Family_Entertainment|Henson Family Entertainment]]
+* [http://twitter.com/hensonparents @HensonParents] - [[The Jim Henson Company#Family_Entertainment|Henson Family Entertainment]]
-* [http://twitter.com/hensonpodcast @hensonpodcast] - [[Henson.com Podcast|The Henson.com Podcast]]
+* [http://twitter.com/hensonpodcast @HensonPodcast] - [[Henson.com Podcast|The Henson.com Podcast]]
-* [http://twitter.com/jimsredbook @jimsredbook] [[Henson.com#Jim Henson's Red Book|Jim Henson's Red Book]]
+* [http://twitter.com/jimsredbook @JimsRedBook] [[Henson.com#Jim Henson's Red Book|Jim Henson's Red Book]]
-* [http://twitter.com/puppetup @puppetup] - [[Puppet Up!|Puppet Up! - Uncensored]]
+* [http://twitter.com/puppetup @PuppetUp] - [[Puppet Up!|Puppet Up! - Uncensored]]
-* [http://twitter.com/stuffedunstrung @stuffedunstrung] - [[Stuffed and Unstrung]]
+* [http://twitter.com/stuffedunstrung @StuffedUnstrung] - [[Stuffed and Unstrung]]
 ==References==
 *In [[episode 4224|a 2010 episode]] of ''[[Sesame Street]]'', [[Telly]] bounces out of control on his [[iPogo]] through [[Hooper's Store]]. [[Big Bird]] yells for him to watch out, as he's trying to "tweet on [his] [[BlackBerry|BirdBerry]]."
 *In 2010, the British Columbian branch of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police accidentally tweeted their "Like" for the YouTube video of [[Sesame Street viral videos|Cookie Monster's SNL audition]].<ref>"[http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101125/bc_rcmp_cookie_monster_101125/20101125?hub=BritishColumbiaHome RCMP posts Cookie Monster video to Twitter]", ''The Canadian Press'' via CTV News British Columbia, November 25, 2010.</ref>
-*On September 30, 2011, the Twitter parody hashtag "#Occupy[[Sesame Street|SesameStreet]]" made its debut, a reference to the Occupy Wall Street protests that began earlier that month in lower [[Manhattan]].  Tweets parodying the positions of Occupy Wall Street protestors have begun circulating on Twitter.  Examples:
+*On September 30, 2011, the Twitter parody hashtag "#Occupy[[Sesame Street|SesameStreet]]" made its debut, a reference to the Occupy Wall Street protests that began earlier that month in lower [[Manhattan]]. Tweets parodying the positions of Occupy Wall Street protestors have begun circulating on Twitter. Examples:
-**"Why do they need a [[Big Bird]]?!  It's a recession, what about a medium sized bird? #occupysesamestreet"
+**"Why do they need a [[Big Bird]]?! It's a recession, what about a medium sized bird? #occupysesamestreet"
 **"Truly outrageous that 99% of the cookies are consumed by 1% of the monsters on [[PBS]]. #occupysesamestreet"
 *In [[episode 4265|a 2011 episode]] of ''Sesame Street'', the Good Birds Club turns Big Bird away for having big feet. The lead says they should "tweet" about it and begin chirping.
 * In an interview for CNET, Kermit is asked about the usefullness of Twitter and [[Facebook]], to which he replies, "it's so much easier to stay in touch with fans, friends, and especially family. When you have [[Kermit's Family|2,342 brothers and sisters]] like I do, Facebook and Twitter save a lot of late night phone calls."<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57338193-52/meet-kermit-the-frog-gadget-geek/ "Meet Kermit the Frog, gadget geek." Terdiman, Daniel.  December 7, 2011. CNET news.]</ref>
 *At [[The Secret Policeman's Ball]] in 2012, [[Statler and Waldorf]] wondered why everyone was playing with their cell phones, to which [[John Oliver]] (referred to as [[Harry Potter]] by the two curmudgeons) answered "They're tweeting!" Waldorf replied "Yeah, eating those sidewalk hot dogs will do that to you." Oliver corrected them "No, they're tweeting, as in Twitter. They're sharing their opinion on any subject, no matter how negative and personally offensive that opinion might be." Statler and Waldorf's reaction: "Negative? Personally offensive? I think we found our calling!" and "Quick, to the twittering!"
+*In "[[Episode 109: Going, Going, Gonzo|Going, Going, Gonzo]]", Kermit says people will live Tweet Gonzo's stunt.
+*In "[[Episode 111: Swine Song|Swine Song]]", [[Pache]] says he wants people to Tweet to the show.
+*In "[[Episode 112: A Tail of Two Piggies|A Tail of Two Piggies]]", Piggy starts a hashtag #Unveilthetail on Twitter. Also Fozzie plays a game called "Who Tweeted It?" with Animal.
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 * "[http://sparksheet.com/tweet-like-a-monster-qa-with-sesamestreet%E2%80%99s-dan-lewis/ Tweet Like a Monster]", Sparksheet.com's Nov 2010 interview with Dan Lewis, Sesame Workshop's new-media director
-* [http://twitter.com Twitter.com]
+* [[File:Kermiteye.png|20px|link=http://twitter.com/muppetwiki]] [http://twitter.com/muppetwiki Muppet Wiki on Twitter]
 [[Category:The Muppets Web Content]]
 [[Category:Henson Company Web Content]]
 [[Category:Sesame Street Web Content]]
-[[Category:Miscellaneous References]]
+[[Category:Muppets Most Wanted Promotion]]
+[[Category:Internet References]]