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Maureen Dowd On The 'toy for bored celebrities and high-school girls'

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Like PhysioProfJames, Chris and I, NYTimescolumnist Maureen Dowd joins the resistance of a technology set to ‘destroy civilization as we know it‘:

I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured over me and red ants eat out my eyes than open a Twitter account.

Read her entire terrific interview with the inventors of Twitter here

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