The Social Media Editor is Dead

By: Rob Fishman | BuzzFeed

By April 19, the manhunt for two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon had been ongoing for four days, and the Twitterati were growing weary.

Brian Ries, of The Daily Beast, confessed he was “so tired.” Huffington Post’s Craig Kanalley saw that and raised: “so, so, so tired,” he wrote. Earlier that day, “for those just joining us” at 11 a.m., Kanalley had cited Reuters’ Anthony De Rosa and BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski as sympathetic to “what last 12 hours have been like,” prompting Conz Preti, a social media strategist, to offer up cookies and coffee.