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Late-night DMs with a Self-Proclaimed Twitter Newbie

Wrapping up my digital ablutions one recent evening, I received the following direct message from a self-proclaimed Twitter newbie.

{New to Twitter} (Handle omitted)
I'm fairly new to Twitter and am trying to figure out the benefit of tweeting every few minutes. Help me out? 12most.com/2011/08/31/12-…
31 Aug at 21:48


I didn’t think much of it and was about to move on from the myriad static that nightly fills my inbox when I was struck by what probably should have been immediately obvious… The reference to tweeting every few minutes was apparently directed at me?!

Needless to say—immediately and irrevocably energized—I had to, at the very least, see who had ventured to, so impudently, tread on my insanity.

Indeed, my newfound “friend” was, by all appearances, new to twitter.

87
Tweets

25
Following

21
Followers

2
Listed

And so, in a tweaked, all night coding-like theta-state with best intentions, my reply began…

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