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The demographics of language via Twitter

“Bruh” is apparently a word people use. In the south. As demonstrated by this graph of its usage in Twitter posts: Via The Morning News
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In defense of Twitter

Jason Kottke has a beautiful post defending Twitter from those who thinks it’s boring and narcissistic. Kottke perfectly confronts the attitude that those who Twitter about boring things mistakenly think the whole world is interested in what they had for breakfast. People with that attitude completely miss the point of Twitter. They don’t get that [...]
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Twitter Paid $6 or Less Its Bird

Simon Oxley was paid little and is credited none for his iconic Twitter bird graphic. Twitter licensed it through iStockPhoto. They don’t have an exclusive license for it, so anybody else could license it for themselves.
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