Articles Tagged with #twitter
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The View From the Lighthouse
Right Here Waiting
After frequenting a local haunt where nobody knows his name, a Chicago writer makes new friends, rips on Richard Marx online, and then suddenly lands a real live celebrity musician at their door.
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Announcements
The Most Tweetable Sentences of 2012
We asked Paul to choose his favorite articles published on TMN in 2012. We had a pretty good year, we like to think: Many stories we loved, many reprints and nods...
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The Final Frontier
Interstellar Hard Drive
All your precious data, everything you’ve created and every memory you’ve captured and stored, is etched on a hard disk somewhere on Earth. Back it up all you want—it won’t matter if the planet goes. The search for storage beyond the cloud.
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TMN Weekender
Failure to Communicate
In this edition of the TMN Weekender, stories exploring the Middle East and Islam...from perhaps a more nuanced point of view than has been expressed this week. Ready to...
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Life 3.0
All Your Futures Are Known
Our correspondent forecasts the week ahead for five volunteers and discovers an eerie rate of success. Secrets, tips, and truths revealed about how to predict the future.
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Life 3.0
Twitter by Post
Twitter is the contemporary postcard—social updates that are limited by size, but not imagination. For a month, with a billion stamps, our correspondent moved his tweets from the laptop to the post office, and rediscovered the joy of mail.
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Of Recent Note
Dead People You Wish Twittered
Maybe death preceded the technology. Maybe they would deliver profound statements in 140 characters. Maybe it’s David Foster Wallace. We tell who’d they follow into the afterlife.
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The Thoughtful User Guide
Writing My Twitter Etiquette Article: 14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely
Every form of communication deserves an etiquette manual, if only so we can treat our fellows better, even in 140-character bites.