" Bradd Jaffy, who's a senior producer on "Nightly," said, "Katy.
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Jaffy boasts a larger following than Griffin, with about 245,000 followers.
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There's no question that Jaffy and Griffin's style works on Twitter.
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While there's no strict formula for a Jaffy and Griffin tweet, an examination of their body of work reveals a few tried and true templates: If a bombshell story drops, there's a good chance Jaffy and Griffin are halfway through reading it before you've even seen the link.
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Three minutes later, Jaffy tweeted again, this time with a link to the just-published story on NBCNews.com.
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In other words, Jaffy and Griffin are able to grab the scoop — and the windfall of retweets that come with it.
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When a reporter in the NBC News operation has an exclusive, Jaffy or Griffin are often first to post the relevant details.
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As news cycles grow faster and more overwhelming, Jaffy and Griffin have become feeds of record for obsessive political journalists and casual Twitter users alike.
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On May 17, for example, Jaffy tweeted that Williams was reporting that former FBI director Robert Mueller had taken over the Justice Department's Russia investigation.
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Jaffy was fast to the news — Williams' Twitter account has been dormant for more than a year — and his tweet generated more than 2,303 retweets.
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Jaffy, for his part, is essentially Lester Holt's writer, helping to craft the copy for the all-important 22-minute nightly news broadcast on NBC.
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Bradd Jaffy — an editor and writer for the NBC Nightly News broadcast — has become a Twitter celebrity with a similar string of obsessive viral news posts.
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That interest has come with criticism, particularly from some other journalists, who see Jaffy and Griffin as using the work they do to amass more Twitter followers.
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Some NBC insiders also credit Jaffy and Griffin for being self-starters at a time when the broadcaster is still trying to figure out its digital strategy.
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If the critics see Jaffy and Griffin's Twitter personas as formulaic, their fans see the two as offering a stable, concentrated place to find out what's going on.
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Indeed, Jaffy and Griffin are so fast on Twitter that they sometimes post NBC's reporting before the digital team can get stories online or tweeted from the house accounts.
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Sources also say that Jaffy is highly regarded among top producers and is particularly close to another rising star: Katy Tur, who rose to prominence during the Trump campaign.
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This has created an environment where some journalists complain that Jaffy and Griffin are "capitalizing on real reporters' work to enhance their own Twitter clout," as one reporter told BuzzFeed News.
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Some of Jaffy and Griffin's colleagues gripe that the two take advantage of NBC's internal news-gathering system, whereby network journalists file reporting for employees to use across various TV and digital platforms.
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Network sources said they recognize the impressive nature of Jaffy and Griffin's dedication, and they marvel at the duo's ability to tweet around the clock while also conducting fairly time-consuming day jobs.
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As TV producers, Jaffy and Griffin have at their fingertips the kind of digital tools to quickly get a clip from cable news on to Twitter, a valuable skill in the cable news presidency.
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But the pair's most loyal followers see it differently and for them, a Jaffy/Griffin's point-and-gawk is the Twitter equivalent of a flare to signal attention that's reminiscent of another blogger's famous siren.
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Pressed by Carlson, here's how Trump justified his accusation that Obama committed a felony and illegally "tapped" his phone lines right before the election (transcript via NBC's Bradd Jaffy): TRUMP: Well, I've been reading about things.
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But in a presidency that plays out primarily over Twitter and cable news, Jaffy and Griffin were already in perfect position at Trump's media nexus with all the resources of the internet and a multinational broadcast organization.
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Top executives at the network have discussed Jaffy and Griffin's popularity and at least one executive is said to be irked by the success of their personal brands at the expense of NBC's own, according to a network source.
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Seizing on a piece of breaking news that's just come across Twitter, Jaffy and Griffin amplify it, but first make sure to add their own flair, usually in the form of an eyes emoji or a downward pointing emoji finger.
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Jaffy and Griffin's speed has caused a good deal of stress for some of their colleagues at NBC News and MSNBC, who have complained that the two are employing proprietary company information to pump out news to their personal followings first.
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On May 30, for example, some colleagues were irked when Jaffy tweeted a screenshot of a few paragraphs of reporting — from NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams — as opposed to waiting for a story to be shaped from that reporting on NBC's website.
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Consider this video from NBC News editor Bradd Jaffy, in which Trump repeatedly insisted that he would not take time off during his presidency — taking shots at Obama for golfing, in his view, so much: Today is Trump's 35th day at a golf club since taking office.
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At the age of eight, Jaffy Brown encounters a tiger escaped from the menagerie of Charles Jamrach, wandering about London's East End. Taken up in the tiger's jaws, he is rescued by Jamrach himself, who then offers Jaffy a job. Jaffy loves working at the menagerie and becomes friends with another employee, Tim Linver. He falls in love with Tim's sister and the three of them grow up together on the streets of London.
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The two boats make for the coast of Chile, and as the crew gradually begin to die of starvation, thirst and exposure, they resort to cannibalism. Eventually only Jaffy, Tim, Skip and Dan are left alive, and they draw straws to see who will be killed and eaten. Tim draws the short straw, and Jaffy kills him, an act which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Eventually Skip also dies, and by the time Dan and Jaffy arrive in Chile they are half-dead with exhaustion and half-mad from grief and anguish.
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In the book's coda, Jaffy returns home, faces Tim's family, and goes through a long period of depression and ennui. He eventually returns to life as a sailor, and in his retirement constructs a bird menagerie of his own.
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Several years later, when Jaffy is sixteen, he and Tim are dispatched by Jamrach to the Dutch East Indies, aboard a whaling ship. Under the charge of Jamrach's seasoned field agent, Dan Rymer, they have been sent to capture a "dragon" for the menagerie. The crew successfully capture the dragon, but on the return voyage it is set loose by Skip, one of the ship's mad crewmen, and after it bites a crew member they are forced to drive it overboard. Later the vessel is struck by a waterspout and sunk, leaving only a dozen men alive, stranded in the Pacific Ocean in two whaleboats.
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