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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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Loriann Turrey
Living my life in my style.
Giuseppina Tiehen
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. -Dalai Lama
Tandra Pascher
Say what you feel. It’s not being rude, it’s called being real.
Andrea Scheuring
Live life, Laugh Loud, Love forever.
Hulda Winston
Google can’t search me because I am on Facebook
Estelle Pohlman
Be yourself; because an original is worth more than a copy.
Cecil Kanz
I don’t have an attitude, I’m just really good!
Lauren Acly
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Gia Sharko
I could be so skinny, If I didn’t have my taste buds.
Irving Shattles
Make life fun, tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.
Jeremy Eggebrecht
Don’t make a permanent decision for your temporary emotion.
Argelia Salzar
A rose can never be sunflower. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
Marketta Maushardt
Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated.
Jacklyn Helgerson
Be a sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it.
Karol Mckibbin
Pay attention to your inner voice. Don’t override that voice – it’s who you really are.
Salena Laurito
One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.
Cassaundra Bamforth
Giving up is always an option, but it’s never my choice.
Annalisa Mignogna
Have more than you show and speak less than you know.
Jarrett Conteras
I can’t help but notice that ‘awesome’ ends in ‘me.’
Britt Cruell
The best of me is yet to come.

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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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