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Twitter: Who Needs Wall Street? Occupy Sesame Street!
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Ben Yakas
Published Oct 5, 2011
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Occupy Wall Street is well into its third week now, and the protesters finally have a meme worthy of their cause: Occupy Sesame Street. The hashtag was first started on Twitter last week during the whole Radiohead hoax saga, but has really taken off this week with everyone from comedian Patton Oswalt to the Daily Caller's CJ Ciaramella getting in on tweet action. Mother Jones has a breakdown of how the meme spread; below, you can check out some of our favorite tweets about counting vampires, Cookie distribution inequality, and wages at Mr. Hooper's store.
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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