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[Twitter] The Most Useless Tweet To Date Discovered


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on December 2nd, 2009 in Twitter, WTF?

Updated: August 5th, 2011

image And the winner is… the same guy who made headlines today because he tweeted from the altar at his own wedding – Dana Hanna.

Are his other tweets just as original as "Standing at the altar with @TracyPage where just a second ago, she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss my bride. #weddingday"?

Not so much… After looking at TheSoftwareJedi's (that's our Dana) timeline out of curiosity, I saw the following gem which definitely takes The Most Useless Tweet To Date award in my book. Here it is:

Yup, it's real and it was not rhetorical or followed up by some witty response. Nope. This was it.

Well, the answer is right there, Dana, …

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The Real Reasons To Use Twitter (Get Over Your Prejudice Already)


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 9th, 2009 in Technology, Twitter

Updated: May 22nd, 2009

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Introduction

Let’s face it – the majority of the population doesn’t understand twitter. They don’t get its true value – all they see is an obnoxious social network full of exhibitionists tweeting about millions of mundane things of every minute of their lives.

Except, twitter is much, much more than that. In addition to all the wankers talking about themselves 24/7, of course. Twitter is what you make it to be. You can follow boring, uninteresting people with interests in growing cactuses (cacti?) and collecting fur balls. But you can also follow people sharing piles of interesting and useful information (see bullet points below). Just do me one favor and repeat after me: twitter is not only for publishing your …

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