See an article on the blog that you want to share ? Tweet , Facebook and Google +1 it

OK - we've got new "share buttons" on every post !

You can now easily share any article you like by email , Twitter,  Facebook, post onto your blog and you can Google+1 it...

Thanks and share away!

James Frain joins Twitter and gets some help from others in the True Blood cast

You can find James here:

James " Franklin" Frain http://twitter.com/James_Frain

Other cast member are here:

Allan " Godric " Hyde http://twitter.com/Allanhyde

Kristin "Pam" Bauer http://twitter.com/BauervanStraten

Mariana "Lorena" Klaveno http://twitter.com/KlavenoFarmGirl

Marshall " Tommy" Allman: http://twitter.com/MarshallAllman

Jim " Hoyt" Parrack: http://twitter.com/parrack120

Lindsey "Hadley" Haun: http://twitter.com/HaunSoloProject

Sam "Sam" Trammell http://twitter.com/SamTrammell

Thanks Kathryn
Others ???

Our own Team Talk Blood Radio co-host @SookeiBonTemps decide to hang up her  Sookie Stackhouse Twitter Role Playing account on Friday. Many in the True Blood Twitterverse were sad to hear the news and many had very nice things to say about all the hard work and passion she brought to Sookie/True Blood Twitter Fandom world.

This DOES not mean she's stopping everything - it's actually good news for us on Team Talk Blood Radio ! We teamed up for this season and we will stay a team for the next 9 episodes. We'll have lots more to say about this on the next show Sunday July 11th so join me and " the artist formerly known as @SookieBonTemps " next week !

Enjoy her wonderful post

The world needs all the Sookies it can get.

Posted on July 2, 2010 by sookiebontemps

It’s a phrase I’ve said often, but it’s a phrase that rings true.
The world DOES need all the Sookies it can get. Why? She’s loyal. Sometimes to a fault. She takes the high road — no matter what comes at her, she does what’s right.  The people she loves in her life come first and she’ll fight to the death for them, if that’s what’s required.  She stands for courage and most of all, she stands for someone who always comes through in the end. You want a Sookie in your life.
But the time has come for me to stop being Sookie.
This is my last blogpost as @SookieBonTemps. Being @SookieBonTemps has definitely been a wild ride. From writing 140-character tweets on my life in fictional Bon Temps to dabbling roleplay to developing programs like True Blood on Twitter Thursday, Bites for Blood for the American Red Cross, it’s been a fantastic run and I couldn’t have done it without all of you.
I’d like to say thank you to the lovely characters who’ve been with me since the beginning, @LafayetteTB, @EricNorthman, @VampireBill, @MerlottesBar, @JessicaHamby, @HoytFortenberry, and all of the lovely characters and non-characters who joined the fray soon after.  Some of you I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in real life, others of you I plan to meet real soon.
Thanks to @TrueBloodDallas, who found this little lost lamb way back in December 2008 when there was no Bon Temps Twitterverse.  You are a wonderful partner in crime, and we do the best damn True Blood radio show out there. Not that I’m biased.
Thank you to @HBO for embracing the True Blood fandom.
And thank you, most of all to my friends and followers whose tweets truly made the experience of being @SookieBonTemps worthwhile, and more importantly, entertaining.

post a messages to her here 

Twollow your favorite True Blood stars on Twitter

These are not just fans these are the real stars themselves tweeting ..some of these are verified accounts with Twitter so fans can be assured who is really doing the tweeting.

Twitter explains it this way : Verification is currently used to establish authenticity for people, government agencies, and businesses who deal with identity confusion regularly on Twitter. You can find out more about the verification process here: http://twitter.com/help/verified

SamTrammell http://twitter.com/SamTrammell- Sam Merlotte

Allan Hyde http://twitter.com/Allanhyde – Godric
Ashley Jones http://twitter.com/AshleyAJones – Daphne
Carrie Preston http://twitter.com/carrie_preston – Arlene
Dawn Olivieri http://twitter.com/ItsDAWNolivieri – Janice Herveaux
Joe Manganiello http://twitter.com/joemanganiello – Alcide Herveaux
Kristin Bauer http://twitter.com/MrsvanStraten– Pam
Mehcad Brooks http://twitter.com/Mehcadbrooks – Eggs
Tara Buck http://twitter.com/Tararaboomdeah – Ginger

Marcia deRousse  http://twitter.com/smartlilblonde - Dr Ludwig

Recent tweets

*Yeah, Arlene's got a bun in the oven!! Lord help her! about 21 hours ago via web -Carrie
* TRUE BLOOD book author Charlaine Harris would rather marry a werewolf...? http://bit.ly/crzV8U 5:24 PM Jun 12th via Facebook  Joe 

*post others in comments if you know them! 

True Blood Twitter Presents: Drop of True Blood Thursday

Need I say that @sookiebontemps is my fantastic co-host on our Talk True Blood blogtalk radio show !

True Blood on Twitter Thursday is back!  And it’s going to be bigger and bolder than ever:

1. We’ve got a new name: Drop of True Blood Thursday. Why the new name? Because for Season 3, we’ve got something totally new planned for you!
2. Every Thursday night at 9pm / 8pm CT, we’re going to give you a new Drop, a new original storyline that gives you a scene you didn’t see in Sunday night’s episode. Maybe it’s Bill being shoved into the car by the Fuck You Crew and speeding off into the night.  Maybe it’s Andy crawling through the window into Jason’s house before they have their man-to-man talk.  Whatever the Drop is, you’re going to have join us on Thursday night to find out.
3. We’ve set up a brand new stage for you to not only watch, but truly be a part of the show.  Call it an interactive social theater, a space where you can not only watch the story play out, but get into the action.  Every one of your responses, your comments, your OMGs will become part of the storyline and may eventually affect the outcome of Thursday night storylines to come.   To be a part of Drop of True Blood Thursday, go to http://truebloodtwitter.com/drops and sign in.
4. Share the love! Let your friends on Facebook and Twitter know that you’re going to be a part of Drop of True Blood Thursday! Drops are best when shared and not kept to yourself!

Join us for the very first Drop of True Blood Thursday:

• When: Every Thursday night, 9pm / 8pm CT after a new episode of True Blood airs
• Where: http://truebloodtwitter.com/drops
• Who to follow: Don’t you worry about that. We’ve got it covered.

**The True Blood players on Twitter are fans of True Blood and Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries. Created by fans for fans.  Endorsed by but not affiliated with HBO or True Blood.

HBO ENHANCES THE SECOND-SCREEN EXPERIENCE WITH NEW TRUE BLOOD TWITTER MICROSITE

New York, N.Y., June 10, 2010 – HBO has launched a new True Blood Twitter Microsite that will provide an enhanced second-screen experience for fans of the show. The microsite uses Twitter to connect True Blood fans to live conversations, while watching new episodes of season 3 every Sunday. Whether an active contributor or casual observer, fans visiting www.bloodcopy.com will find a True Blood-centric destination where they can share favorite moments, view popular topics, win prizes and more.
Bloodcopy.com will feature weekly “hosts” that will live Tweet during each episode on Sunday nights, initiating conversations, interacting with fans and facilitating giveaways. During this Sunday’s premiere, the HBO official True Blood Twitter profile (@TrueBloodHBO) will be the site’s first host. In celebration of the first episode, fans will have the chance to win Ultimate Truebie prize packs and unlock virtual badges. Through a first-to-market partnership with social discovery engine Tunerfish.com, fans will also have the opportunity to earn “Truebie” and “Maker” badges by Tweeting while they watch and influencing their friends to do the same. Surprise hosts for future episodes will be announced over the next few weeks.
Other features of the microsite include a customized Trending Topics (“Blood Topics”) of the most popular keywords in True Blood Tweets; the ability to sort, search and categorize the True Blood conversation; full Twitter functionality including sign-in and URL shortener directly from the site; and a spoiler alert pop-up screen warning visitors that crucial elements of the show may be revealed. The microsite was built using Twitter’s @anywhere technology and will soon be available on additional platforms. The site was designed and developed by Red Interactive Agency, http://www.ff0000.com/.

Viewers’ Choice: True Blood on Twitter Thursday

My friends and I are so excited that HBO is going to start re-airing True Blood Season 2 on March 21. So excited that we’re bringing back True Blood on Twitter Thursday! But we’re going to need your help.

Tell us which True Blood Season 2 scene you want to see played out on Twitter. The scene with the number of votes will be performed on Thursday, March 18, at 9pm CST.
choose here

HBO Forum closed until January 21st

Our friend and intrepid presence on the HBO True Blood Forum, Marlene ( marlenem on the HBO forum) emailed tonight to let us know that the HBO forums will be down until the 21st of January!

We love the forum fans and I know the communities of the TB wiki and TB IMdb would welcome you guys while your site is down !

http://truebloodwiki.hbo.com/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844441/
The official announcement reads:
We're sorry but the HBO.com bulletin boards are currently unavailable.

We will be launching a completely new HBO.com next week and invite you to come back on January 21st to be the first to spark conversation and create threads in the new community.

If you are one of the first 100 members to elevate your status by participating in and creating engaging conversations, you could win more than just the respect of your fellow members.

We are extremely excited about the new site and think you will be too. We look forward to seeing you again next week!

Thank you,
HBO.com

P.S. If you can't wait until next week, you can always join the discussions at www.facebook.com/hbo

True Blood Fan Anniversaries!

Well, it sure is funny how we all started together last year and how we all found each other and what a great year we've had. THE FUN of doing this has been making so many friends and meeting and staying in touch online, by phone and in person.

The anniversary of this blog was November 4th , the anniversary of my first blogtalk radio show was November 24th ( you can still listen to all the podcasts !) and the one year anniversary of True Blood Music Video of the Day is coming up next week !

The lovely @SookieBonTemps has posted a little on her blog about it being her 1 year anniversary tweeting as Sookie on Twitter -thanks for the shout Sook !

I would say thanks to everyone who has been a guest on the radio show and to our weekly Season 2 TB professional reviewers Brian Juergens/Andy Swist and Mark Blankenship and Meredith Woerner. Thanks to all my great friends from the HBO True Blood wiki and to everyone who reads the blog and comments ! "

Holy smokes! It’s my one year anniversary on Twitter!

But one year ago on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, I was sitting at home a little bored when I decided to create the @sookiebontemps account. Maybe it was True Blood / Sookiebook withdrawal. Who knows? Either way, something inside of me said, “What the hell? Why not tweet a few Sookie-isms and see if this sticks?”

A year later, I’m still here. And I’ve got a whole lot of people that I’d like to thank for making Twitter a boatload of fun:

• Thank you to everyone who followed me in the beginning when Bon Temps on Twitter only had one resident.
• Thanks to @TrueBloodDallas who knows how to spot a lost lamb when she sees one — it’s certainly been a wild ride from our first chat, to meeting in L.A. for Paley, going to Shreveport to meet Charlaine, to doing Talk Blood every Sunday night after Season 2 epis. Without you, I would not have met the awesome @robiart and the lovely Patrick.

read on http://sookiebontemps.com/

Bites for Blood kicks off on Thursday, December 3 at 9:00pm

This from the lovely @SookieBonTemps

Would you give a drop of blood to the Red Cross in exchange for a bite from Eric or a kiss from Sookie?

The True Blood players on Twitter hope you will. They are hosting Bites for Blood, the first ever virtual blood drive held on Twitter. Their goal is simple -- fill a blood vial with half-a-million drops of blood to raise awareness for the American Red Cross.

Bites for Blood kicks off on Thursday, December 3 at 9:00pm CDT with one night of virtual kissing and biting booths manned by everyone's favorite True Blood characters on Twitter. Participants simply:

1. Choose the human or vampire you'd like to have kiss or bite you.
2. Click on their badge.
3. By clicking, you will be directed back to Twitter where you'll tweet your support and receive a kiss or bite from the character you chose.
4. The page will remain open until Sunday, December 5th at 9pm CDT so that you can continue donating drops to Bites for Blood.

It's an easy and fun way to show support for the Red Cross. And if it inspires you to take the next step and make a real life blood donation or contribution to the Red Cross, then even better.

For more information on Bites for Blood and how you can get involved, go to http://truebloodtwitter.com. Be sure to tweet the page and share it on Facebook to get the word out!

True Blood / Sookie tweets from DragonCon

Some of these are pretty intriguing

chelliemo Debbie Pelt's body is found in the next Sookie book #dragoncon

Charlaine: Alan Ball is having fun casting Debbie Pelt for next season of True Blood. #dragoncon

Charlaine: Alcide will have a new gf in the next book, but something bad *may* happen to her. He has the worst judgement." #dragoncon

Erik could kick Edward's butt? Charlaine: *Pam* could kick Edward's butt. And shed *love it* #dragoncon

Jenniceg @truebloodhbo charlaine Harris won't say who she prefers eric or Bill #dragoncon

chelliemo What's next for charlaine harris: something completely different #Dragoncon 1 day ago from txt

chelliemo Sookie stackhouse as the poster child for healthcare reform #dragoncon

@Paradisacorbasi: Harris was asked which vamp Sookie will choose. She replied, 'You assume it's a vampire'. #dragoncon

Paradisacorbasi Has True Blood changed your life? Harris: I have a lot more money? #dragoncon

N2F79 There are tons of True Blood fans here. Bubba was walking around last night. #dragoncon

Please become a Facebook Fan of the Loving True Blood in Dallas blog

Please, please become a fan of the Loving True Blood in Dallas blog- this is pathetic.

I've always just had an individual account on Facebook and am friends with many of you , but I've never had one for the website.

So, now I have one - but please fan me !

Thanks "D"

** click on box to right

Addicted to Twitter

From Salon Magazine

How I learned that I was powerless over micro-blogging and my life had become unmanageable

By Laurel Snyder

Aug. 15, 2009 | Last Thursday morning, I sat down at my computer with my cup of sludgy coffee, just like any other day. I checked my e-mail and glanced at the New York Times Web site. But when I opened up Twitter, expecting the usual hodgepodge of scattered thoughts and hectic questions, I found there was nothing there. Nothing at all.

It was the day of the Great Twitter Outage. But I didn't know that yet. I only knew that something was terribly wrong.

Actually, it was funny, in a kind of pathetic, soul-crushing way: I stared at the blank screen, hitting refresh over and over. Waiting for everyone to come back. For my online life to resume. Finally, I accepted the truth. Twitter, my favorite unreliable news source and constant companion, was gone.

True Blood in Crisis: Bill's Bangs day 2 !

We just don't have the time to wax philosophically about Godric's ruminations on violence and coexistence after centuries of watching the evolution of both the human and vampire races. We don't have time to think about right wing extremism, religious zealots, suicide bombers, bigotry and discrimination.

We have to WORRY about HAIR!!!
True Blood fans have survived some BIG True Blood hair fights in the past. Last season, we had the very warranted complaints about poor Alex Skarsgard's wig, which he had to wear because his hair was still short from starring in Generation Kill when they started filming True Blood.

Then at the beginning of season 2 we saw his new haircut and the highlights ( see the scene below) When Eric asked Lafayette in that horrible horrific dungeon scene "Is there blood in my hair ?" and then goes on later to lament that " Pam will kill me "

We saw the new 'Eric look' in the 'Forever 21' scene in S2 Episode 2 ( also below) where he ask Bill " It's the new me - you like ?"
Now, you have to set aside the vampire cannon (rules) from the Sookie books because we know that vampires can't cut their hair or change their appearances because they go right back to how they looked at the original time of their death.

Bill explains this to Sookie in "Dead until Dark "

I touched his sideburns, since apparently touching was okay. "They're long," I observed.
"That was the fashion," he said. "It's lucky for me I didn't wear a beard as so many men did, or I'd have it for eternity."
"You never have to shave?"
"No, luckily I had just shaven."

I'm not sure they know they need to have hard and fast vampire rules in True Blood. Let's not even try to figure out how Eric can cut and change his hair but Jessica regenerates "her virginity"

So now we are faced with the very serious problem of Bill's Bangs. On Sunday night, our radio show guests reviewers, Brian and Andy (campblood.org) talked with @SookieBonTemps about Bill's hair especially his bangs. If you missed our Blogtalk radio show Sunday night listen here and to Brian and Andy's vlog here but NOW the fan forums are buzzing about 'Bill's Hair"

There is even a new entire thread on the HBO fan forum called Fix Bill's Hair

trubldaddict says "Amen! How can they not see how weird his hair looks? Stiff and flat bangs that seem to glow red in the dark are not a good look!"

My suggestion is that what we really need is a new Twitter character called @BillsBangs. Maybe the solution is to just laugh about it ..

In case you don't know in the world of Sookie/True Blood Twitter universe inanimate objects and even animals sometimes become True Blood Twitter characters and the result is usually hilarious.

For example: some of my favorites are @EricsBlackAmEx, @AIDS Burger, @Eric's Gracious Plenty, @Lafayette's Thong, @Pam's Pumps and when poor Bob Jessup isn't in his human form he twitters as @BobthecatJessup

Let's just all let our hair down and enjoy the last few Season 2 episodes -- @BillsBangs anyone ?

Some other favorites are :

AIDS Burger
Bill's Henley
Bill's Hot Tub
Bill's Piano
Bill's Toaster
Cardboard Eric
Eric's Credit Card
Eric's Gracious Plenty
Eric's Hands
Eric's Legs
Gran's Pie
Hoyt's Cell Phone
Jason's Brain
Lafayette's Cosmetics Case
Lafayette's Thong
Maxine's Casserole
Ms. Jeanette's Ghost
Pam's Boobs
Pam's Pumps

You can find more at IOP (TB Inanimate Object Patrol)

Twitter Outage Moves Into Day 2

Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal spent yesterday battling a DDOS attack that started around 6 am California time. Twitter and LiveJournal went down hard, Facebook stayed mostly online but was clearly under strain. CNET reports that a single individual's accounts on the services may have been the primary target.

Now, nearly 24 hours later, Facebook and LiveJournal appear to be performing normally. But Twitter is down completely and has been for the last few hours.

As of 4 pm Twitter was saying things were looking better: "Site latency has continued to improve." But for most users, all third party services have been completely unusable for the last 20 hours or so (Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Power Twitter, etc..), bringing down the entire Twitter ecosystem. The Twitter.com site itself hasn't been reliable either.

The Twitter status blog has been silent since that 4:14 update.

Is Twitter Down?

istwitterdown.com/

Buffy / True Blood role Playing Games

A Buffy the Vampire Season 8, True Blood, & Angel Season 5 Role Playing Game

Hundreds, maybe thousands of girls made the choice. Through the power of the scythe, they were instilled with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness. Only one problem: vampires have "come out of the coffin" and made their presence known to the world. Killing them is now punishable by law, whether you're human or vampire. So, what do these thousands of girls with vampire slaying skills do now?

Many of them, especially the charismatic, powerful leader, Buffy Summers, is seen as a terrorist to the government. Vampires have made their presence known, but who or what are slayers? VTV, a popular TV network, featuring Harmony's popular reality show "Harmony Bites" makes slayers out to be the bad guys (more accurately, girls). So, not only is the government after the Slayers, but vampires are, too, only in a more private capacity. But, there are some vampires, especially vampire sheriffs, like Eric Northman, who want to use people with certain slayer "skills" to take care of vampire-related problems. Therefore, slayers can still use their skills in a bounty hunting capacity, once again ingraining their terrorist label.

On the other side of the country, an evil law firm in Los Angeles, of which clueless Angel and his friends are working for and think they're in charge of, helped orchestrate the new vampire laws in order to keep half of its clientele safe. Angel, being a vampire himself, signed the forms to help pass it along, not understanding the repercussions for Slayers, thus building an even bigger gap between Angel, his friends, and the Scoobies.

Meanwhile, in Bon Temps, Louisiana, a young telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse meets her first vampire, Bill, after saving him from Drainers (people who sell the highly addictive vampire blood on the black market). Both Bill and Sookie are intrigued by one another, but must deal with the small town persecution, especially from Sookie's coworkers, her boss, Sam, her brother, Jason, and her best friend, Tara.

However, a dark power is rising in the south. A new Hellmouth is born in the heart of Louisiana; New Orleans. Hearing this news, Buffy and her friends head there to keep an eye on things, and mostly, to stay out of the public eye. What better way to hide than in, what they think, is the middle of nowhere? Little do they know, Louisiana has become a hub for vampire activity. The scars still visible on her neck, Buffy is immediately labeled a "fangbanger," but at least no one knows that she's the Slayer. Or so she thinks.

Rules || Application || Taken Characters || Available Characters || Contact Information


chosen_nomore

True Blood Sinks Its Teeth Into Twitter

True Blood Dallas named as one of the 5 True Blood Twitters to follow

Loving True Blood in Dallas blog named one of the best True Blood twitters to follow - what an honor !-thanks http://www.phillyburbs.com

Half the fun of watching TV shows is following along with other fans and friends on Twitter (yes, that thing is still around).

Here our Blood Type’s suggestions on who to follow to stay up on all the True Blood goodness.

@truebloodnet- A fan media site and your online source for the latest news, interviews, photos and info. on the HBO TV Series True Blood. Not affiliated with HBO

@trueblooddallas- Best True Blood and Sookie blog around. According to their bio. Well let’s just see about that.

@anna_paquin or @paquinanna- Are either really the True Blood star? Probably not. But it’s fun to pretend.

@phillyburbs- Well obviously, I mean where else would you go for True Blood news, gossip and everything else you could ever need in life?

You can also become a Twitter Vampire. Undeadly cool.

http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/news/blood-type/2009/06/19/5-true-blood-twitters-to-follow/#comment-108

Below is the comment I posted !

Dallas Says:
June 19th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Haha thanks so much Illuminati. Yes, I do sometimes call myself “the best” or sometimes I call it ” your favorite ” True Blood / Sookie blog and that’s meant tongue in cheek and kind of as an inside joke. There is sooo much competition in the True Blood / Sookie fandom on the internet you just have to stay true to yourself.

I am first and foremost am a bookie (Sookie Stackhouse book lover) but I LOVE True Blood. I want my blog to have the quirkiness and the flavor of the south ( I only live 2 hours from Bon Temps ) and I do silly things that my readers like, recipes, fan art, True Blood /Sookie music video of the Day ( yes, a different one !) everyday ( I’ve posted 200 of them as of today!)

We do tons of really fun creative contests, have frequent fan trips and meetups and the fans of my blog regularly help me co-host my weekly radio shows.
I LOVE TB / Sookie fans more than anything ….

Yep, take a look at the blog, listen to some of my radio show podcasts and let me know what you think.

I hope it will become one of your “favorites” too!

Thanks, Dallas

lovingtruebloodindallas@gmail.com

Google Friends Connect with Dallas

If you sign up as a friend or follower of this blog using Google Friends Connect I will enter you to win an autographed 'Dead and Gone' bookplate from Charlaine.

You can sign up using your Gmail, Yahoo , AOL (AIM) or with OpenId.

Now please, no bellyaching about wanting anonymity, all you have to do is create a nifty special online identity at Google(gmail) or OpenId that isn't connect to your personal(mainstreaming)email identity !

You should already have one of those anyway.....

The sign up link is on the right column mid way down in the " Google friends " box.

The promotion ends Sunday, May 17th night 12 midnight (cst) - I'll email the winner !

Thanks "D"

** if you are already a "friend" "Follower" you are automatically entered !

True Blood for Your Sims 2 Game

Amy posts about new True Blood Sims ..you hadn't thought about True Blood and Sims have you ?

True Blood is HUGE and I absolutely love the books. No. Seriously. LOVE them. I’ve read them three times.

So, I’ve been on the lookout for a couple of good True Blood Sims and have finally found them!

Woo hoo!

You gotta love people who can do good “famous” Sims.

You can download the Tru Blood Sims by clicking here and add them to your own game

How exciting is that?!

http://www.everyjoe.com/simsgamer/true-blood-for-your-sims-2-game/