Tweet of the Week: Hard to beat a picture with the Weepu brothers on #RWC victory night…

So I guess we just need to host every world cup from now on?

Most unexpected #RWC Tweet of the Week…

Hehe..

Press Tweet of the week: I’d assumed there was some elaborate algorithm or even a psychic octopus or something. Oh well.

And in other news – President Obama confirms troop withdrawal from Iraq by the end of the year.

With estimates putting the toll at nearly a million dead and unknown millions more injured it’s been an expensive and bloody conflict.

And yet in this weeks Republican primary debate Michelle Bachmann said that Libya and Iraq should have to reimburse the USA for liberating them…. to rousing applause…. <sigh>

Selective Amnesia Tweet of the Week: I think the staffers in Peter Dunne’s office who do his tweets for him should peruse the Wikipedia entry for United Future before doing so. They might also want to check out the pages for  ”Gordon Copeland” and “Larry Baldock”.

And finally a very compelling tweet from the #occupy movement – CEO of one of the US’s largest mortgage lending companies was prosecuted for  his role in a $3billion fraud scheme. He got 40 months in prison. A homeless man stole $100 from a bank by pretending to have a gun in his pocket. The teller gave him a pile of money and he took one $100 note and gave the rest back. He then turned himself in to police the next day. He got 15 years.

Tweet of the Week: National unveiled their billboards outlining their seven key platforms for a “brighter future”. One fairly glaring omission…

Meanwhile the nation’s interest and attention continues to be held elsewhere. After last week’s win sans Dan Carter, Piri Weepu has been elevated to Chuck Norris status.

Or perhaps a more homegrown comparison.

Press Gallery RWC hyperbolic Tweet of the Week: I almost didn’t give this to Paddy because I told him last week that he wouldn’t get PGToTT unless he quit the boring sports tweets…

Back in the world of politics this gets the “If you believe that you’d believe anything” award:

And this has nothing to do with anything. I just think it’s a very good point.

Tweet of the Week: For the most part the #RWC tweets have been pretty dull but good old French-English rivalries were always going to liven things up!

Someone had to say it…

Funny. When I lived in France they used to say exactly the same thing…

Press Tweet of the Week: Crazy indeed.

Political tweet of the Week: It was only a matter of time…!

Umm an election…?

Of course the death of Steve Jobs was overwhelmingly the dominant trend this week.

The Westboro Baptist church are infamous for picketing the funerals of gay people.  One of the nutty Phelps clan tweeted that they would be picketing Jobs’ funeral because he’s evil. But apparently not so evil that they can’t tweet from one of his products…

And finally the following tribute image was created by Jonathan Mak – a 19 year old from Hong Kong. It has since gone viral and even landed him a job…

Tweet of the Week: The PM had an hour long promotion/host interviewer position on Radio Live – the only precondition being he didn’t have to talk about politics…

Unfortunately this was the same day NZ copped two credit downgrades. But the PM (live) promised urgent action. Not on our economic woes but on the shifting of Coronation Street’s time slot from 7 to 5pm…

Russell Brown points out the ridiculous irony in the PM’s sudden call to action for Coro…

While Stefan sees an in for Winston!

Press tweet of the week: I know this is late (and we lost) but I had at least ten people say the same thing to me (even though I didn’t watch coz i’m a sports jinx)

So to the next big news of the week. Dan Carter is out. OMG. This is seriously bigger than Coro.

This gives me vague hope?

Press Gallery Dan Carter Tweet of the Week:

True that.

Tweet of the Week: After more than 130 years the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) is closing it’s doors. As a provincially based MP this is particularly sad news as our media have been more reliant on NZPA for their NZ-wide news than the bigger media businesses that produce publications such as the DomPost and New Zealand Herald. Thanks to all those journalists who have over the years provided this invaluable service.

And in a prime example of why diversity of media is important, apparently the most pressing political question for Fairfax this week was ‘Who would you trust to babysit your children?’…. Seriously…

I guess “Are you going to sell my assets” not high on the list of questions for potential babysitters.

The Egonomist sees an ulterior motive at play…

Press Gallery Tweet of the Week: Given that there are more people named John or Don on ACT’s list than women you would think a sitting female MP being binned would’ve attracted a little more attention….

Parliament is in recess so another relatively slow week on Twitter..

Tweet of the Week: Don’t forget the ‘Something borrowed’ – more than $300 million a week to pay for unaffordable tax cuts.

Initiative of the week: A lot of work has gone into getting the Sister Suburbs initiative up and running – check it out.

Press Gallery Tweet of the Week: Not much competition this week as I think Felix is the only member of the press gallery not in India!

Fox news – up to it’s usual high journalistic standards

And what is this new beverage that apparently we’re all drinking?

And Tau attempts to rebrand National as the party of innovation. I can just imagine him wandering around Parliament attached to a long extension cord: