Dan Sinker (aka Fake Rahm) Talks Tweeting the News

     At some point since its creation in 2006, Twitter went from being an object of curiosity—the subject of news stories—to one of the chief conduits of the news.

     “Every single major news event has broken on Twitter for the past couple of years,” says Dan Sinker, the writer, designer, and programmer who shot to Web fame as the author of the hilariously profane @MayorEmanuel parody account. “It’s a thing that is no longer able to be written off as where people share what they had for lunch.

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