Category Archives: Social Media

Twitter Issues New Rules On Blocking Followers

EB679ED9-6BBC-43F0-86D7-AAFA6CD43352SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – Nowhere is the blocking of Twitter followers more widespread than in the Philippines.  

With highly-charged tweets and tweet replies among pro- and anti-Duterte netizens, many have asked if there is a limit on how many people account holders can block from viewing or commenting on their Twitter accounts.

The Adobo Chronicles has learned from reliable sources at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco that there is indeed a limit on the number of blocks.

The answer: 140 creepy characters.

Miss Philippines Mariele De Leon Says She’ll Do Her Best Not To Win Miss International Crown

7670FACC-A7BD-4E01-B83B-916F474A4F42TOKYO, Japan (The Adobo Chronicles, Tokyo Bureau) – We have beauty queens, and we have outspoken beauty queens.  Miss Philippines International 2017 Mariele de Leon is among the latter.

She has taken to her social media accounts to express her strong personal opinions about developments in her home country.  Netizens reacted most to her post criticizing the appointment of Mocha Uson as Assistant Secretary of the PCOO.

In another post (see photo), she also made clear that above all else, country is more important.  Yes even more important that a beauty pageant crown.

We caught up with de Leon during one of the rehearsals for the November 14 Miss International finals and she confirmed to The Adobo Chronicles that she will try her best not to win the crown, currently held by another Filipina Kylie Verzosa.

Asked to elaborate, she said: “As I’ve said in the past, the crown is less important than my love for my country.  So just to spite those who criticize me for speaking my mind, I will give the dumbest answers to the Q&A and fake a stumble on stage to ensure that I don’t win the crown.  Mine will be the last laugh.”

Wow, we have a real beauty with (or is it without?) brains!

Good luck, Miss Philippines!

 

Trillanes Accepts Columnist’s Apology; Trillanes Apologizes To Adobo Chronicles; Pinoy Ako Blog Apologizes To Thinking Pinoy

BA5DE207-235C-482F-84AD-C8B959E55E1FMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – It’s been a whirlwind of apologies in the last 24 hours.

Senator Antonio Trillanes has accepted the apology of PhilStar columnist Al Pedroche for a narrative which the latter included in an opinion piece alleging that U.S. President Donald Trump called the Filipino lawmaker ‘lil narco.’

In return, Trillanes has apologized to The Adobo Chronicles for tagging the satire site as “fake news” in a social media post.

4CB1E737-BA05-4D25-BF08-93ABE1B8F078Then, in a surprising turn of events, Pinoy Ako Blog’s Jover Laurio also apologized to Thinking Pinoy for erroneously naming The Adobo Chronicles as his source for the supposedly fake news about Trump and Trillanes.

One of the three apologies mentioned above is definitely NOT fake news!

(Editor’s note:  For this post, we’ve omitted are usual fact check meter as to which is fact and which is fiction.  We don’t want to be a spoiler!)