Take Delaware’s account, @delaware_gov, with which New Jersey is in an ongoing Twitter feud. Perhaps no one message encapsulates New Jersey’s Twitter attitude better than “your mom”— a two-word tweet sent last December that vaulted @NJGov into the spotlight. At the time, Ms. Gabel and Ms. Coyne had been running the Twitter account for months, mixing standard public-service announcements with their brand of Jersey humor. “I was like ‘That’s so rude,” said Ms. Coyne. Ms. Gabel, who sits in the cubicle next to her, took that as a good sign.

Source: International New York Times February 19, 2020 07:52 UTC