What's the deal with Twitter?
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Re: What's the deal with Twitter?
What the hell is a twitter?
"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
Re: What's the deal with Twitter?
Its a position involving, a guy a girl a donkey and 2 Mexican referees
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Re: What's the deal with Twitter?
Here's a good one: I was looking up stats on swine flu, to see if it's possible to get straight facts without all the media hype about it. (It is. Just not on TV.) I found a news site that had an article, and right underneath, there's a Twitter feed. I don't mean in the comments section, I mean between the article and the "Related Articles" section.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this sound like another example of some misguided news organization trying to be "hip" by pretending Twitter is a legitimate news source, and undermining their own credibility in the process? Am I going to soon have to sort through "i am sick, dell gave me swine flu lol swear to god" and "i told him wash his hands, i don't want swine flu" (actual "news" posts there, with the name changed to protect the severely retarded) to find legitimate news in the future because legitimate news sources think they have to jump on this bandwagon of stupidity?
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this sound like another example of some misguided news organization trying to be "hip" by pretending Twitter is a legitimate news source, and undermining their own credibility in the process? Am I going to soon have to sort through "i am sick, dell gave me swine flu lol swear to god" and "i told him wash his hands, i don't want swine flu" (actual "news" posts there, with the name changed to protect the severely retarded) to find legitimate news in the future because legitimate news sources think they have to jump on this bandwagon of stupidity?
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