White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack

Tommy Christopher, who writes for mediate.com, has reporting in his blood, so much so that he livetweeted every part of his recent heart attack. "I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!" and "This is not like the movies. Most deadpan heart attack evar. Still hurts even after the morphine," were among his updates as he was rushed to the hospital. Christopher is now in stable condition after recovering from emergency surgery.

Tweet!

[morari]

This one time, I tweeted that I ate a sandwich. I tweeted about every bite, described the taste and texture. Everyone cared a lot about that series of tweets, and waited with extreme anticipation as I made it to the last bite. I'm thinking about doing a similar series of tweets, describing the sandwich the next day as it leaves my body. It seems like shitty tweets get a lot of attention...

Hospital visits are boring

[NotQuiteReal]

So, I guess it gave him something to do.

Deathtweeting the new extreme sport?

[SunSpot505]

I can't wait to see the new extreme sports that come out of this. My mind races. Bungie Tweeting, sky tweeting, base jump tweeting, etc. And for that matter, it's probably only a matter of time before someone tweets there own death ("going to the light #lifeafterdeath, pray for me @joan @Derrick @slashdot") if it hasn't happened yet.

Obviously Monty Pythonesque

[PolygamousRanchKid]

The Tweet reads, "Here may be found the last Tweet of Tommy Christopher. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find me in the Hospital of Aaauuuggghhh... "

What?

He must have died while tweeting it.

Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't have bothered to tweet 'Aaaauuuggghhhh'. He'd just say it.

. . . etc . . .

What I don't understand, is why the hospital staff lets someone with a serious medical condition tweet . . . ?

anyone can make snarky comments

[circletimessquare]

but the real geek will figure out how to fit an ekg into 140 bytes

Re:Obviously Monty Pythonesque

[Headrick]

Maybe he was dictating...

Re:Obviously Monty Pythonesque

[MiniMike]

What I don't understand, is why the hospital staff lets someone with a serious medical condition tweet . . . ?

Maybe they were distracted by their ipods and didn't notice he had his cell phone?

Re:anyone can make snarky comments

[StikyPad]

#define FLATLINE 0x00

Worst time to have a heart attack?

[drainbramage]

Worst time to have a heart attack?
During a game of Charades.