Waiting for press embargo to be lifted on exciting news takes forever!

@jds Maybe it'll be announced tonight & there is an embargo?

@jds Maybe it'll be announced tonight & there is an embargo?

@jds Maybe it'll be announced tonight & there is an embargo?

1 more reason embargo secrecy sucks: can't access embargo site when photos are supposed to be posted. No leaks though...oh wait...

@yuhui But that LTA mistake wasn't really a broken embargo, but a stupid slip of their own fault.

@yuhui The reason you want an embargo is also to give the media time to prepare their stories, so that the stories hit at the same time.

@danielgoh But what better way than that to *ensure* the embargo?

Your definition of a press embargo is... perplexing. A 5pm embargo means the news can go live at 5, not the time you hand out press kits.

@weeklycrisis I didn't think of that. But I kind of feel like there's a Bat-Embargo on DCU events with only Bruce getting a large role.

@beeamanda It's because of US embargo against Iran. Enom banned accounts of all Iranian customers.

The 2010 Tanglewood season listings will go live on the Collaborative Piano Blog at 2:01AM tomorrow, 1 minute after the press embargo ends.

D.O.A. RT @coreydu: Is Twitter killing the embargo? Agassi story suggests so http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/business/media/09couric.html

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I personally have doubts about its effectiveness in a 24-hour news cycle RT @briansolis: The Future of the Embargo http://bit.ly/44RlCS

RT @SiliconANGLE Juniper big news breaks before embargo - here are details for huge announcement http://tinyurl.com/ykk8usp