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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Twitter

Twitter’s followers trump Facebook’s phony friends
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Julia Angwin of the Wall Street Journal explains how she was seduced by Twitter: when she first joined, it seemed like "a noisy bar where everyone was shouting and nobody was listening," but now she’s come around to preferring Twitter’s followers to Facebook’s phony friends. On Twitter, you don’t actually have to communicate with people; you tweet and they listen.

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