Twitter is a mosaic of madness. — Ad in BART station A lot of “sound” comes out of Twitter. From social justice advocates to teenagers to professional athletes to right-wing conspiracy theorists, it seems that everybody is tweeting all the time. Tweets have become so ubiquitous that even someone like me, who has never had…
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