El Coyote Gordo (supergee) wrote,
El Coyote Gordo
supergee

It was a dark and stormy night.

First sentences were the original Tweets: Say something in 140 characters or be ignored.

Thanx to Arts & Letters Daily

ETA: And James Fallows tells us what’s wrong with Twitter, including this excellent remark by Kevin Drum:
Basically, Twitter is the perfect platform for two things: snark and assholery…. In the end this is a lesson about economics. What happens when you vastly reduce the cost of being an asshole? Answer: the supply of assholes goes up.
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