# The Onion tweets fake Congress gunfire

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-tweets-fake-congress-gunfire/598084>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 29, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-tweets-fake-congress-gunfire/598084 "2011-09-29T23:56:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-tweets-fake-congress-gunfire/598084/21 "2011-09-30T20:39:11Z")

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> [@JSexton](#):
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> But how many people follow them on Twitter without knowing what the Onion is?

A lot of stuff gets retweeted without comment. I don’t follow the Onion, but I saw a lot of the tweets anyway. Their name isn’t even particularly ‘jokey’. There are plenty of legitimate newspapers with names like The Boomerang, the Reveille, the Gusher, the Flambeau, the Sunflower–there’s even [The Florida Onion](http://warwickinfo.net/floridaonion/), the official newspaper of the Village of Florida, NY.

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