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Brazil: Introducing the Offline Twitter

Sunday, December 14th, 2008 @ 15:07 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Ideas, Humor, Internet & Telecoms, Software & Tools, Technology
Languages:: Portuguese

Lúcia Malla [pt] and a group of friends - all of whom have twitter accounts - show what happens when twitter addicts meet in a bar: they keep twiterring offline. See the pictures. “Experiment's general conclusion: the more difficult thing on the offline twitter is to design your avatar. ;) (and calligraphy books for everyone as Christmas gift …: D: D)”

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# 2008-12-15 at 15:57 pm
scott

You may want to check out yonkly: http://yonkly.com

It’s the first “create your own microblog” that integrates with Twitter.

# 2008-12-15 at 18:36 pm

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