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A collection of tweets generously prepared and shared by Julia Evans for her Twitter memes challenge. While looking through them, I was struck by just how vacuous they are, yet in the context of Twitter's pages and apps, they seem to form the illusion of something more. Okay, not a lot more, but enough to keep us tap-tap tapping.

So, here is a random selection in all their inane glory. They have been partially sanitised, but there are still some words and ideas that could offend, so it's probably safer to say:

Warning - may contain strong language!

An unrelated collection of tweets - around 500 million of these are sent each day.

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Kieth Henricks
My life my rules love me or reject me, I don’t care.
Jung Sankaran
I am just a girl looking for my heart.
Maryjo Maydew
What others think of me is none of my business.
Ione Rostek
I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.
Kimber Ponciano
Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Marybeth Blaszak
I believe in romance. I have a fierce to love and be loved.
Maryellen Tuong
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Queenie Karen
Dip me in chocolate and call me dessert.
Peter Oven
I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened. -Theodore Roosevelt
Justine Fego
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Mohammad Klasinski
I have born to be true, not to be perfect.
Martha Vear
If you can dream it you can do it. -Walt Disney
Tabetha Mazurkiewicz
There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Milly Kathan
This is who I am. Nobody said you had to like it.
Emilio Broman
I’m not lazy. Someone just stole my motivation
Malia Sessler
Surround yourself with makeup, not negativity.
Elizabet Sawicki
I wish I could donate my body fat to those in need.
Cecila Dellaratta
I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
Haywood Jn
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. -Lao Tzu
Carmina Screen
Make life fun, tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.

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Some links and thoughts to fill this otherwise empty space.

textfiles.com: the dark ages, long before the TwitBooks. indieweb: a sort of D-Flip-Flop of HN. ledgerofharms: bunch of killjoys telling us how bad the web is. betterinternet: the cheery ages. kids@google: to be fair, Rumpelstiltskin & the Pied Piper were probably worse. Fear Of Missing Out: one reason to be hooked.

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