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    The Great American Tweet

    MAY 2, 2012 1:04AM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: truncation of meaning, literary aspirations, swirled world, shorter messaging, smaller messaging, the last syllable of recorded time, brief history of communication technology, books, social criticism, great american video, great american youtube, social criticism + media of communication, shortening of language, scribblers + writers, nirvana, utter silence, zen silence, short attention span, text critics, tweet critics, metablogs, blog critics, book critics, tweet was something a bird did, tweet was something a robin did, tweet was something birds did, text is a verb, text was a noun, danagram, daniel rigney, humor, satire, comedy, great american word, great american syllable, great american abbreviation, great american txt, great american text, great american tweet, great american blog, great american book, great american political slogan, great american ad message, great american phrase, minature messaging, age of miniature messaging, miniaturization of media, great american novel, great world novel

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