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Against All Tweets …

Posted on 09 July 2009

I came across this today and couldn’t help but to pass it along – a philosophical exposition against Twitter. Priceless.

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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Culture

4 responses to Against All Tweets …

Timothy Burns says:

Thursday, 9 July, 2009 at 11:49 AM

did you have a link for this article??

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CT Blake says:

Thursday, 9 July, 2009 at 12:15 PM

He ran out of characters.

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Jason Gillikin says:

Thursday, 9 July, 2009 at 1:07 PM

Haha, it was actually included in the text of the note as a hyperlink … http://proginosko.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/against-all-tweets/

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Timothy Burns says:

Thursday, 9 July, 2009 at 1:59 PM

"cogito, ergo tweet." Descartes for the digital age.

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