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Fed's Twitter Arrival uZIRPed By Hecklers, And Real Time Fed Twitter Tracker
If the Fed thought it could boldly go where hundreds of millions have gone before (in a vain attempt to be cool, hip and relevant - Twitter of course - with the @FederalReserve handle naturally), all in a quest for faux transparency and openness, which nobody who is even remotely familiar with the Fed's actions is buying, without getting a few heckles in the process, it was wrong. Unfortunately, as the currency debasement race has simply taken a short breather ahead of a presidential election and a possible regional war with wide-ranging commodity price implications, before it resumes into the frantic final lap, the below sample is merely a modest appetizer of what is yet to come.
Courtesy of John Lohman
And here is a real time tracker of all @FederalReserve tweets:
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Fed plans on following TBTF blue chip tweets like Ashton Kutcher & Lady Gaga.
Thanks to Operation Tweet, maximum message length on Twitter will now inflate by 2% per year. So you can look forward to 143 character messages next year, officially (although the real limit will be 154).
Oh, and I did my part:
@federalreserve How do you feel about Greg Smith's scathing editorial about Goldman Sachs, since most of you used to work there?
Well played sir.
The Federal Reserve is trying to reach out to propagandized and brainwashed libertarian youths, and the internet libertarian ‘machine’ is out in full swing making sure that NOBODY is able to hear the other side of the story. It’s ironic that this assault on the Federal Reserve Bank’s educational initiative should coincide with a fantastic equity rally fuelled by positive NFP results, which in 2008 would have been unthinkable. It is only due to the decisive and well-thought out actions of congress and our Federal Reserve that we are now on the road to recovery. Young people WILL learn about the virtues of a centrally planned stable economy whether internet pirates and weedy zit-faced anarchists like it or not.
http://www.twitter.com/federalresreve
Someone ask Ben if he is or isn't printing money; vis-a-vis two separate, contrary statements made to the same 60 Minutes Reporter, 21 months apart, as summarized by Jon Stewart here:
The Big Bank Theory - The Daily Show with Jon Stewartwww.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-7-2010/the-big-bank-theory
Amerikans want to know!
MDB I hate these guys also what would this great government be without the Federal Reserve.
Libertarianism generally refers to the group of political philosophies which emphasize freedom, individual liberty, and voluntary association. Libertarians generally advocate a society with little or no government power.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines libertarianism as the moral view that agents initially fully own themselves and have certain moral powers to acquire property rights in external things.[1] Libertarian historian George Woodcock defines libertarianism as the philosophy that fundamentally doubts authority and advocates transforming society by reform or revolution.[2] Libertarian philosopher Roderick Long defines libertarianism as "any political position that advocates a radical redistribution of power from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free individuals", whether "voluntary association" takes the form of the free market or of communal co-operatives.[3] According to the U.S. Libertarian Party, libertarianism is the advocacy of a government that is funded voluntarily and limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence.[4]
Libertarian schools of thought differ over the degree to which the state should be reduced. Anarchistic schools advocate complete elimination of the state. Minarchist schools advocate a state which is limited to protecting its citizens from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud. Some schools accept public assistance for the poor.[5] Additionally, some schools are supportive of private property rights in the ownership of unappropriated land and natural resources while others reject such private ownership and often support common ownership instead.[6][7][8] Another distinction can be made among libertarians who support private ownership and those that support common ownership of the means of production; the former generally supporting a capitalist economy, the latter a socialist economic system. Contractarian libertarianism holds that any legitimate authority of government derives not from the consent of the governed, but from contract or mutual agreement, though this can be seen as reducible to consequentialism or deontologism depending on what grounds contracts are justified.[9][10][11] Some Libertarian socialists reject deontological and consequential approaches and use historical materialism to justify direct action in pursuit of liberty.[12]
@federalreserve 6% of WHAT? are the Share Holders (Owners) of the Federal Reserve Paid? http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm dividends are 6% by LAW a year?
Brilliant.
Did you do that?
What's brilliant is this move by the Fed. It can A) gather info on all the negative twitters, B) allow faster delivery of BS and C) let algos trade off of every tweet as if it's factual information. How else will they ramp this hot air ballon into the stratosphere
I don’t twit or twat or any of that, but would someone please let them know that thanks to their flighty policies, my retirement savings isn’t worth a bag of birdseed or anymore and that since their FRN’s are hardly worth lining the bottom of a cage, I would just like to ram it all right up their tail.
No, no, no...MilliionDollarFuckTard says this is great, and surely you're just a malcontent "libertarian."
I merely tweeted that I would "love for Bernanke & Dudley to enjoy their next bowl of clam chowder or lobster bisque."
its to compile a haters friends list for later use or they are tweeting codewords for bots. thats what makes sense. not a marketing forum but a way to disperse infor to computers to frontrun and manipulate
All that twitters is not gold
Centrally planned stable economy?
Bloomberg headline today: Jp Morgan: China now in hard landing.
How's that for centrally planned economy? Is this guy for real or he is just trolling for fun?
Trolling for fun. If you read it enough times you can see the humor.
Priceless.
No wonder he's unfazed by all the criticism. hat off.
setting aside for a moment that MDB is an obvious troll, what in the hell gives you the idea that anyone should give a shit about being criticized by a bunch of idiots?
Not just idiots; awakened idiots- huge difference.
@surf, I'm afraid if I read it enough times I'll be turned into a mindless, well, serf..
++1
Tyler and Zerohedge - brilliant!
If only I had a Twatter account.. could upload YouPorn recommendation links to the SEC. Have you had the opportunity to scan thru the followers? Fucking hilarious.
FLB, you gots a new handle.. How's the wife?
Not sure about FLB acronym. Been divorced twice & my new wifey of 5+ years are not married into the corrupt system of getting hitched, while the state bleeds you of income to prop up unicorn deficit recovery plans. We stay off the radar. Some people never learn. :(
Well MDB, they wanted to "collect data" so I guess they're getting it...right out of thin air too...lol.
You my bitch MBD
But she's my fuckin muppet
That's a little closer to my old MDB. Crank the sarcasm thickness to 11!
MDB's shit used to be funny; but it's grown stale.
MDB - a weedy zit-faced troll.
They tell you to jump,
and you say how high.
You play dead,
you gotta fuck'n bullet in your head.
I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched as the feds cold centralised
So serene on the screen
You was mesmerised
Cellular phones soundin' a death tone
Corporations cold
Turn ya to stone before ya realise
fuck you i won't do what you tell me
Mothaf**kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah !!!!!! HOOOAAHH!!!!!!
Epic stuff. Great anthem for the coming party (1776 Vol. 2)....even if RATM is a bit Che Guevara-ish in their worldview.
Oh they'll learn alright http://www.zerohedge.com/news/fed-take-propaganda-schoolroom-will-teach-...
Smith aka MDB -
Trying kind of hard for that federal reserve job aren't you?
Not get your million dollah bone-us from Golden Sacks?
hey mbd- there is some guy named michael twitting his brains out over there and needs your help ... badly. his sincerity is really much funnier than yours.
MillionDollarFuckTard says "Young people WILL learn about the virtues of a centrally planned stable economy..."
I can't say this strongly enough...commit suicide you fucking loser! Central planning has been horrible everywhere it's tried.
MDB, I have to give ya props, kid...even after ALL this time, there are still morons around here falling for it. I truly marvel; keep it coming.
"No million dollar bonus for yoouuu!"
Did you say "centrally planned stable eonomy" ? Why if i was your mama I would tan your hide and abandon you on the Federal Reserve's front lawn. If you believe the employment statistics it just goes to show how informed you are because you might want to look at tax collections which have gone nowhere over the last 12 months. Losing a $20 an hour job and getting another for $10 an hour is not called a stable or improving job climate.
@ MDB
Man...you are good...........
.....as a tool for big government utopian HORSE SHIT!
The zits are gone! You can hardly tell I had them!
Since when is a centrally planned economy stable? So far all the centrally planned economies are failing from central planning. Too many planners, not enough workers. Too much about a single "plan" not enough about regional benefits - skills & people. I'd say immigration is too strict & that forcing interest rates to force export-benefit to one region or wage-benefit to one region at the expense of all others just makes slaves angry.
Angry slaves shut down economies.
I'm voting for MDB as a write-in cadidate this year. God knows he's funnier than the current clown...
What chickenshit...
An institution which at the heart of their mandate is public perceptions, a supposedly Lofty Serious Important institution which should be Absolutely Dripping with Gravitas is going to fuck around on Twitter!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Holy Horse Sperm, Benman!
You people are definitely in need of some serious professional counseling... psychological, perceptions mangement and mature financial professionals.
Twitter is the land of infantile persons, immaturity, self absorbtion, insecurity, anal retentiveness, lesser inteligence (Bill Gross Tweets. Listen, just trying to help here, big guy) people with far too much useless time on their hands (please give some thought to mortality, for Christ's sake, find somethiong better to do) with generally little value added in life.
Holy cow....
Get a grip...
Seriously
it's old people trying to stay "relevant" with all their edgy diversity hires
The Federal Reserve Hipsters.
Dudley and his iPadHD.
Bernank & his donkey/midget entourage.
Then you got Timmy over at Treasury, getting bootstomped by Dominatrix Diedre - speaking of which, where is Herr Merkel?
I heard Energy Secretary Chu was sent to pick her up, but he drank way too much pond scum for energy, got behind the wheel of a Karma and ran over O'Barry's dogma ;-)
Merkel is out rooting for truffles.
trav, you asshole.
fuck you too.
Obam-ba-lam...
Hey trav, take it easy.
I been enjoying your company for over two years, staring at your av giving me and everybody else here the finger - day after day, month after month.
I just wanted to say "fuck you" once. Just once.
Don't take it personally.
Its great having you around.
lol, say it twice then, why hold back?
another time, buddy.
on your say so.
And.........Trav finds a way to slip "the blacks" into this thread.
what an astonishingly bigoted thing to say. I said diversity. And you immediately see that as "black."
it never occurred to you that this could mean gays or asians, huh? Shameful, your raycissm is.
You need to look inward to figure out why you're conditioned that words like diversity don't bring indians or hispanics to mind.
Damn you Trav, more thumbs up on your impassioned defense of diversity hiring practices than my peek into your dark soul. Well played sir, well played.
Ben is in need of a rope around his neck, and to be hung fron a lamp post.
#justiceserved
Don't forget the fair trial first.
Fair trials are always followed by first-class hangings.
No trial needed, so say's N D A A .............
They make like rabbits with the notes....
They're just attempting the same things with birds - Chickenshit is right!
At least (as far as I'm aware) they can't fuck with Golden Eagles.
It is the Fed....
Sounds like they found their girl.
Only if Tweets are part of the Core CPI. If Non Core, tweets may soon hit a few million characters but the Fed won't care.
Duh, all non-core tweets are transitory!
And your messages can be 2% longer, but they'll mean 10% less!
Except for tweets about food or energy. Oh yeah, and if you meant to type "steak" but accidently typed "cat food".
Whoa. The Man himself.
Tyler's "Darth Vader Leaves the Empire" post today has been reported far and wide by many other media outlets...one for the ages good sir. Hehehe...I'll be chuckling for days... :)
Tweets are the result of a technology, called twitter, that allows non-best friends forever of the FRBNY to publish as many core, ugly truths about the absolute destructiveness of The Non-Federal, Reserveless Non-Bank, as they wish at essentially no cost.
lolerskates
You win one internet from me, sir.
Cue twitter nationalization in..
At least we're limiting the bullshit that comes out of Bens mouth to 140 characters at a time.
Until he gets his Tweetelberg 5000... then we're fucked.
You are fucking ON tonight RedPill - I'll have two of what you're having...
Steve Forbes got in on the action too...
Steve Forbes @SteveForbesCEO
The @federalreserve is now on twitter. Let’s hope it keeps them busy so there’s no time to weaken the dollar further.
Look out for the wave of hate!
http://silverliberationarmy.blogspot.com/
Lulz out loud.
Maybe next time they will Tweet which banks pass the stress test so that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan can't front run all the regular folks. Hello, investigation!?
beautiful...
Yes, and you are on on the double triple secret probation list and spaces have been reserved for you at the nearest FEMA camp.
Rookie mistake....
Off the grid means off the grid.
No poking the bear.
Will they have free cookies and coffee at the FEMA camp?
no! just IRS auditors.
No, but all the water you can breath.
fucking hilarious
..you'll be locked in a room with a life insurance salesman for 8 hours a day for the duration of yoru natural born days.....during the remainder of the day you will be forced to watch Tom DeLay reruns on Dancing with the Stars over and over...and over with CNN Balloon Boy reruns during the commercials.
If you're super good, you can watch Cramer, non-stop for 24/7.
That's worse than waterboarding...or death.
Jesus man, that's cruel even by my standards.
Meanwhile, you are completley with that proxy and all... You read somewhere that it will keep you out of harms way.
Not sure about FEMA camps but I am sure all those that tweet will be on terrorist watch lists..
Rocken Robin lets out a tweet over Ohio and is downed by an air to air missile.
The funny thing about the driftnet-style monitoring of twitter messages is how easy it would be for anyone with control of a botnet to throw a wrench into the gears of the whole works.
The staggering amount of data to sort through requires some sort of automated sifting system. Yet with all the computing power that government waste can solicit, the needles that they've found in this Matterhorn sized haystack have been laughable.
If all the infected computers in a botnet were simultaneously issued a command to start sending various threatening messages containing certain key words through any twitter accounts found on the infected machines, two things would happen: the whole monitoring system would be brought to its knees by the work load, and half of the people on twitter would be under investigation.
The problems have never been about obtaining information. It has been about trying to determine the quality and taste of water when having to drink from the fire hose. If anything, post-911 made the situation worse.
The terrorist list is already 20-50 percent of the population, so what difference does it make?
If you're still sleeping, you are not a terrorist.
I doubt that 20% of the population have woken up.
What you say rings true in ways. And yet you chirp here?
Part of the crew, part of the ship.
Part of the crew, part of the ship.
Myself , I am hoping that instead of FEMA I get assigned to the Flying Dutchman. At least I'll get one day ashore every ten year.
I've never been to sea,
but I've been blown ashore a few times.
Come get some. My spot will have to go empty because we'll hold court right there in my front step, & I bet Ill even take a few jackboots to hell with me too.
good stuff
Ron Paul sure does have a lot of alias
We're just lucky he has no spawn
lmao
This is going to be epic.
The Fractional Reserveless Pond Scum from Jekyll Island will no doubt be slinking back into the shadow of their primordial ooze, soon.
Will someone please tweet that gold IS actually edible, but Federal Reserve Notes/Toilet Paper are not? Thanks.
Let's ask if they can get Bill Dudley to eat an iPad on national TV. I'd tune in.
We need some tweets from Clueless Economist (picture of Paul Krugman, Ph.D as avatar), with the type of inane tweets Paul Krugman, Ph.D would actually tweet.
e.g. - Dr. Bernank; is it true that rising prices will grow GDP during times of declining real wages/rising U6?
e.g. - Dr. Bernank; how many licks does it now take to get to the center of a now smaller tootsie roll pop?
lol. If anyone doesn't get that, Dudley basically said the economy was great because the newest iPad was cheaper. Gas, food, clothes? Eh, as long as gadgets are cheaper...
Here is the Jekyll Island book for free in pdf for those interested in an education:
http://ia600503.us.archive.org/33/items/Creature_From_Jekyl_Island/Jekyll.pdf
I thank the library archives for this nice freebie! Amazing what you can do without a $120,000 student loan.....
Fuckin right its edible... ask Steve Jobs he snorted it probably.
White powder gold exists naturally in your body and is contained in small amounts in the herbs and foods that enhance the immune system and regeneration. The Egyptians, and others, created them in pure form.They understood an important alchemical quality regarding the use of these sacred monoatomic elements to accelerate the ascension process. Egyptian initiates often fasted prior to and during the consumption of white powder gold as well as monoatomic rhodium and iridium. This was not only for purification. They believed that the digestive acids in the stomach neutralize some of the alchemical properties of the monoatomic elements. (They form monoatomic chlorides in reaction with hydrochloric acid. Monoatomic rhodium, for example, becomes monoatomic rhodium chloride. Its chemical structure is different than monoatomic rhodium or standard rhodium chloride, and the physical properties of this rhodide are similar to an iodide, not a metal. The effect of monoatomic chlorides is positive but different. Theoretically monoatomic elements should not react with hydrochloric acid, but nobody told the molecules.
http://www.asc-alchemy.com/mono.html
Monoatomic Gold
BWAHAHHAHHHAHHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Oh wait...
Maybe they just wanted to build an "enemies" list...
What do you think your local fusion center is for?
Haha. Hahahahaha.
Apparently the sheep aren't as stupid as the Fed thinks.
Every post proves that they are every bit as stupid as the Fed knows.
Which?
The ones here or on Twitter?
HEY HEY HEY!
I am not one to readily disparage fellow ZH'ers.
You guys are the only friends I got.
:)
Now that is funny...
P.S. Have you thought of opening a Twitter account?
Now THAT is funny!
I dont have a twatter account either - but for a second, a second mind you - after seeing this ZH article i thought about it.
That thought has now vanished.
Whoehahaha! That student loan joke :)
They are all so priceless :)
iBackfire?
IF I had a twitter account I would bash to, but aren't the FEDPIGS watching twitter. Are they in a sense making a list of terrorists?
This is pretty funny though, I want to be able to check it every day, i may need to join.
Yeah, the Feds are watching Twitter. Don't worry though; you're safe here on ZeroHedge. The Feds have never heard of this site.
Whew! I feel much safer now.
They're afraid of Tyler.
Is it true? Are the Tylers building an army, sirs?
I know nuthinnnnng (where's Schultzie when you need him)
yea it was just a coincidence that you received a random computer generated IRS audit.
They are watching everything, particularly the commenters here. Our tax money proudly at work. Welcome to the Stasi state. Google and the NSA are joined at the hip. Brush up your German and watch The Lives of Others to get a taste of what is coming to a town near you. You think hiding behind an ID makes any difference?
The feds have been listening, watching and tracking everything for a loooong time. The Patriot Act just made it 'legal.'
Fools.
This is how they will round you up.
All of you.
Thanks to your cowardice it will be easier.
I appreciate your thought, but the issue is not cowardice - its enlightenment.
If speaking out against the Fed is grounds for rounding people up then we may as well drop all pretenses, unleash the 400 million guns in private hands right now and get busy.
There's no time like the present!
/sarc
am i the only person left who doesnt have a twitter or FB account?
Nope.
I don't have one, but I'm considering getting one just for tweeting the Fed. I've been watching the real-time heckle feed for about 30 minutes. It's just too good...
Turn away. Don't Look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m83JcNoNQ-4
I don't. I'll hang onto my privacy and leave the Fed heckling to the hip kids. They're doing a pretty good job without my help anyway.
Nope. Nor any of that other useless self absorbed shit.
I've noticed all the people that are on Facebook constantly, posting every damn piece of minutiae, are the people I don't even like in real life. Narcissistic, full of shit, impulsive losers.
It can't be a coincidence.
It took me two hours of web research to find out how to really (I hope) quite FaceBook. Almost as bad as kicking coffin nails.
i liked the occasional updates i got from mature friends that posted something every week or two. but once i saw on tv news 'post your whole life on facebook' - that was it. and yes - it really did take sometime to shut it down. but zuckerberg and goldman sachs aren't stupid, now are they. greedy - maybe - but magnamious? no.
NO.
Nope, neither one...tweetless...aaaaaand lovin it!
Maxwell Smart...
What's a twitter? I don't even have a yootoob or goggle account (apart from a useless gmail account where they keep asking me for a phone number or other email account to link it to ... fat chance!).
you mean the "do no darpa" google ?
idog,
Give em Berkshires number...man, I may have to sign up for the fun & mayhem...ROTFL!!!
You've just brightened up my internet life!! Don't know why I never thought of it (well, I know why, but am embarassed to admit it). Can't wait to start! (No more "name@email.com" for software registrations and redtube; "TheBenBernank@NonFederalNonReserve.com" is da shizzle).
Just think of the sales leads that will be generated with the passing of your valuable faux personal info from one cubicle to the next....like marketing/advertising hedonics on steroids. You might even be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Economic Imagery...I hear it's the latest thing...lol.
I do the same thing when the gum snapping checkout girl at Lowes says "Phone number please" after I pay her with cash. I started out saying what the hell do you need my phone number for? Always got a blank stare or a "I dunno, the system is asking for it" as she peers at the unthinking machine telling her to ask me.
Then I suppose the muckity mucks all got together at some sales seminar somewhere and decided it was for the warranty. Warranty? I've got the piece of shit broken product you sold me not more than a month ago right here...with the date, time and method of payment on the store receipt you gave me acknowledging my payment to you, you anal rententive dingbats.
As for myself, I've long ago decided we are dealing with a thoroughly corrupt and deceptive system, so I'm under no obligation to deal with it in an honest & forthright manner...have fun with it...pick at the stitches ;-)