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TODAY Show: The most powerful tweets of the year
Twitter announced its list of the Top 10 most powerful tweets of the year:
1. Let ‘em land
After the massive 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, Doctors Without Borders flew in a team of physicians to assist the wounded, but they were unable to get clearance to land the plane. TODAY’s Ann Curry used… -
It was bad enough that John Mayer shot his mouth off — and called his penis a “white supremacist” — in a Playboy interview. When he tried to apologize via Twitter, he made things even worse
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Twitter has a Status Tumblr
Updates on the status of the Twitter service.
Tumblr should follow suit and make a Twitter updating us when it crashes. METAMEDIA!
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Two photographers aim to reconnect place with pronouncement. Urbanite’s Cara Ober tipped us off to the ongoing project of Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman, who are obsessed with the anonymous, occasionally profound ruminations of Twitter users. “We think of these photos as historical monuments to small, lived moments,” Larson told Urbanite. “It also grounds the virtual reality of social networking data streams to the physical world, while examining how the nature of one’s physical space may influence online presence.”
Their process works like this: When Larson or Shindelman come across an evocative tweet sent from someone’s smartphone, they note the recorded geolocation and—GPS in hand—hunt down where that 140-character dispatch originated. Once in location, the photographers snap a shot of the surroundings and present the image and text side by side. “The messages run the gamut from sexy to angry to depressing or shocking,” writes Ober. The juxtapositions cryptically and powerfully speak for themselves.
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