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El Coyote Gordo
supergee
21 January 2016 @ 05:34 am
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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(Anonymous) on January 21st, 2016 02:26 pm (UTC)
headline service
Because of its nature, I find Twitter to be very helpful as a headline service, for me to get the news about topics I'm interested in. But yes, you do have to be able to put up with a certain amount of snark from strangers. I can control whom I follow, but not the annoying stuff that sometimes get reTweeted by people I follow.
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