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Twitter Twazis

04/30/2010 by Debra

and now a post of great social and political import 😉

In [a] stunning display of  the fact that some people really need to get a life,  your tweets are being watched for proper grammatical syntax.

A small but vocal subculture has emerged on Twitter of grammar and taste vigilantes who spend their time policing people’s tweets.

They build their own algorithms to sniff out tweets with typos or flawed grammar, or written in ALLCAPS, and then send scolding notes to the offenders. They see themselves as guardians of a new behaviour code: Twetiquette.

“It would be kind of nice if people cleaned up their grammar a little bit and typed in lowercase, and made the Internet a little bit smarter,” said one of them, Nate Fanaro, a 28-year-old computer programmer from Buffalo whose Twitter handle is CapsCop.

Know what else would be nice? If self important little twits minded their own damn business!

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I am a passionate supporter of human rights, a mother of 6, and owned by a dog and a kitty.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness
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  1. skdadl says

    04/30/2010 at 8:57 am

    lol. Do we have to get dressed before we tweet too? Wash our hands before and after each twexperience?

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  2. Dr.Dawg says

    04/30/2010 at 9:43 am

    In stunning display

    “In a stunning display,” shurely? –ed.

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    • April Reign says

      04/30/2010 at 10:15 am

      ROFTL..why yes — yes indeed 😀

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