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Extra, Extra: The Worst Tweets From Twitter's First Year
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Ben Yakas
Published Jul 11, 2012
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- Maybe instead of banning soda, Bloomberg should legalize weed!
- Wow: Charlie Kaufman and Dan Harmon are collaborating on a stop-motion animated film called Anomalisa.
- Take a gander at the worst tweets from the first year of Twitter.
- Meet Skippy, a remotely operated robot that lets Internet users skip stones on a beautiful lake.
- NBC and Microsoft are breaking up, so MSNBC.com will likely transform into NBCNews.com.
- And here's a legal analysis of Jay-Z's classic "99 Problems."
- A serial hugger is on the loose in St. Louis.
- They keep telling us, and we keep not listening: sitting all day is killing us!
- Metro North is testing out paperless tickets.
- Jeremy Lin reportedly feels insulted that the Knicks didn't offer him a contract sooner—although, not enough that it stopped him from celebrating "his Houston offer sheet over dinner with Knicks assist Kenny Atkinson."
- McDonald's has the sole rights to sell chips or french fries at the Olympics, and the company is prepared to defend it.
- And finally, this dog has more fun with one sour lemon than you've ever had in your life:
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