{"id":11,"date":"2010-03-01T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-03-01T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:03:00","slug":"it-all-began-back-on-february-8th-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/it-all-began-back-on-february-8th-2010\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"It all began back on February 8th, 2010 when Craig Ferguson announced (after months of insisting Twitter wasn&#8217;t for him) that he had joined the microblogging community with the user name <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigyFerg\">@CraigyFerg<\/a>.  Not long afterward, he began to refer to his followers as his &#8220;Robot Skeleton Army&#8221;, and urged them to join him in his hollowed-out volcano to await instructions.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2010\/02\/09\/craig-ferguson-joins-the-twitter-brigade\/\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Innovation\/Horizons\/2010\/0209\/With-CraigyFerg-Craig-Ferguson-leaps-into-the-Twitter-fray\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/watching-tv.ew.com\/2010\/02\/09\/craig-ferguson-twitter\/\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> have taken note of Craig&#8217;s plan.<br \/><br \/>Since then, Craig has quickly amassed thousands of followers and delighted them with off-the-wall tweets.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monkeysee\/2010\/03\/how_to_help_get_craig_ferguson.html\">National Public Radio<\/a> has blogged about his latest scheme to get a robot sidekick.<br \/><br \/>Craig&#8217;s tweets are an off-air parallel to his on-air persona; smart, honest, occasionally profane and most importantly, funny.  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