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> Now, if the real reason for using Twitter is to follow stuff that's
> happening in real life, then yes, I guess to me the system would be
> completely useless. I can't think of anything that happens in real life
> that I would actually give a damn about...

Yeah, I fogrot that you live in a bubble completely isolated from the 
outside world, but even then, one day maybe you'll be caught in an event 
(massive car pile up on the highway after two picometers of snow, bus 
blown up by Mozambican terrorists, or something like that)

For example, our province's new premier was almost assassinated last 
night while giving her victory speech.  There were lots of people in 
that theater who wanted to know what the heck was going on.  Following 
the police's and tv stations' Twitter feed was all they had.  Likewise, 
the tv stations were following the twitter feeds of the people in the 
theater to get as many details as they could.

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