@baratunde is in this story because of me

Well, it's more because of @DaveMaass since he wrote the story... but he said that my tweeting about Baratunde Thurston (a.k.a. @Baratunde) was the reason that he was included in his story on the swine flu.

The excerpt from his Santa Fe Reporter story:

H1N1 has found a second infectious life through Twitter. Comic Baratunde Thurston confessed at an event in New York City last week that he was responsible for the swine flu’s satirical Twitter account, which collected more than 1,500 followers in a few weeks.

And here's my original blog post on the Swine Flu Twitter account.