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Re: Can someone explain how twitter works? (4.00 / 3)

Y'know all the short pithy statements on Facebook that people make in between posting pictures and videos and sorting their friends making event pages an' stuff. Well, twitter is just all that junk, only that junk.

think of a dKos comment thread. With really stupid people.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 01:50:17 PM EST
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Re: Can someone explain how twitter works? (none / 0)

think of a dKos comment thread. With really stupid people.

Clearly carried out by the Department of Redundancy Department. :)

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 01:58:44 PM EST
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Re: Can someone explain how twitter works? (none / 0)

Now now. they may have a higher signal to noise ratio than here but their hearts are mostly in the right place.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 02:00:43 PM EST
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Re: Can someone explain how twitter works? (none / 0)

...and naturally demonstrating my contribution to the noise end of the debate, that'd be a lower signal to noise ratio...

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 02:01:50 PM EST
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Re: Can someone explain how twitter works? (none / 1)

Awwwwww. (No one believes you.)

Nosemonkey's Twittering is funny, though. A creative use of the medium.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 03:05:57 PM EST
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Re: Can someone explain how twitter works? (4.00 / 2)

No, no.

DKos comments don't fit in the 160 characters of a text message. If only...

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 03:38:36 PM EST
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