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One Direction fans: The mayor of Boston feels your pain

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By adamg on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 7:45am

Marty Walsh held a Twitter chat yesterday, and answered one of the more pressing issues of the day:

Oh, and look: Somebody has started an online petition to rename the Zakim Bridge the Leonard P. Zayn Malik Bridge.

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By Brian Riccio on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:02am.

Glad to know Walsh is a verified idiot.

By adamg on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:10am.

And has no sense of humor whatsoever.

By bulgingbuick on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:13am.

humor.

By Cappy on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:29am.

We believe you have a sense of humor. Now answer some serious questions. Enough already. If I want comedy I'll call Dick Doherty.

By Waquiot on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:55am.

Would you have preferred it if he told that kid to go pound sand?

Nonstory all around, but I do think it was kind of cute.

By Cappy on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 9:10am.

He comes online to answer questions for a limited time. He can ignore the stupidity and take the hard questions but he chose not to. No one wants to read him playing softball with morons. People had real questions. Having said that, I wonder when NKOTB are coming back?

By Waquiot on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 9:40am.

Reading the summary of "twitter conversations" involving well know powerful elected officials is very annoying. Too much stuff there, and very little substance. Walsh would answer a question, but I mostly could not figure out what the questions was. And although there were a lot of good questions, there was much, much more crap. Heck, why glom on to this. He answer the question of Godfather II versus Godfather III (or I, I was just happy to see an actual question.)

At the end of the day, he responded to some real questions, and interestingly there was one question that was cut-and-pasted from several twits which was factually wrong. At the end of the day, this is twitter we are talking about. Hitting back a few softballs thrown his way would seem to be what twitter is all about.

And besides, look at the retweets. And the fact that otherwise Adam might not have even reported on this. It was a good move in the end.

By roadman on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 9:51am.

Reading the summary of "twitter conversations" involving well know powerful elected officials nearly anyone who posts on Twitter is very annoying. Too much stuff there, and very little substance.

FIFY

By adamg on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:05am.

It's one thing if you're monitoring the hashtag in real time; quite another to parse out the meaning and flow of questions and answers in a "transcript" after it's done. Give me a Reddit AMA, at least for the format, any day.

By cybah on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:07am.

I flip between tweet deck for this. Easier to sort out this stuff in your feed.

By Ishmael Jones on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 11:32am.

Either he or someone on his staff is a Dale Carnegie graduate, that line is taken almost verbatim from one of Carnegie's books, wherein a student is giving a speech with the opening line "Lincoln is dead." He then has an attack of stage fright and cannot talk; after a few minutes of stammering the teacher says: "We are all devastated by that news, but we must soldier on."

By Lmo on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:04am.

June 24!!!

By RozzieRat81 on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 9:27am.

The questioner is an adult

By adamg on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:10am.

He's probably best known as Producer Matt on Amp 103.3 and does stuff like interviewing drunk people at bars.

By Waquiot on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:32am.

You are still a kid in my books.

To be fair, I am still called a kid, and I know people my age who are grandparents. Of course, senior citizens and friends call me kid, and every day I know the "kid" era is coming to a close.

And I know who Zayn Malik is. I can identify two members of One Direction- the Irish one and the Muslimy one. And I have to admit that One Direction is in fact a half decent singing group.

By Brian Riccio on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:33am.

I don't hate Walsh, I just think he's a balloon head and a puppet. Who couldn't love that running your city?

By ElizaLeila on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:59am.

I'd love it more if he were my puppet. :D

ETA: wait, that came out wrong. :/

By bulgingbuick on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 2:40pm.

Weak.

By Malcolm Tucker on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:28am.

he is a human being, and he was on Twitter while it was losing its damn mind about this, and he took two seconds to write a funny, topical response. I'm not a Mahhty cheerleader (nor a 1D fangirl), but I thought this was cute.

By cybah on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:02am.

I realize I'm OLD..

Who is One Direction?

(not kidding, no idea who these people are and why people care so much)

By ElizaLeila on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:07am.

That's all you need to know.

Oh - British Boy Band. The triple B threat.

By adamg on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:09am.

Is "the vaguely ethnic one," according to the kidlet, who knows just enough about boy bands to know that much.

By bulgingbuick on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:16am.

but should not be shared...

By Kaz on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 9:16am.

I think these were five finalists on the X Factor UK or something, weren't they? And Simon Cowell threw them all together into a single group and *poof* 1D was formed?

So, it's not like we're even seeing Yoko separate lifelong friends or anything. They came together, did their thing, they originally even wanted solo careers...and well, he's leaving the band.

Something like that anyways.

By cybah on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:09am.

I'll pretend like its 1998 again and I'll understand...

By Dot net on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:47am.

I don't know crap about this really, but as far as I do know, think of Justin leaving N'SYNC, and we'll be right on top of this.

By Lmo on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:07am.

Or Davy Jones leaving the Monkees?

By Malcolm Tucker on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:30am.

Ginger Spice leaving the Spice Girls. The most interesting one always leaves first.

By gotdatwmd on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:19am.

retweet dis if u cry evRytim

By anon on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 9:02am.

Yoko's fault.

By roadman on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 9:37am.

to pas a law that just ELIMINATES this archane, arrogant, and juvenile practice of allowing politicans to name public infrastructre after people.

By adamg on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:07am.

I don't have a problem remembering somebody (in this case, Zakim) for a life's work of helping others. While they're still alive, though? Yeah, a bit much.

By anon on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 2:09pm.

I don't think Archie Bunker should have had anything named after him, let alone a hill AND a bridge.

By Ishmael Jones on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 9:56am.

Zayn! Come back!

By Scratchie on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:16am.

LOL

(insert slow clap gif here)

By ChrisInEastie on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 9:59am.