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Friday Fun – You kiss your mother with those tweets?!

by amy mengel on August 14, 2009

I’m pretty convinced the creativity of Twitter application developers knows no bounds. Yesterday I stumbled upon a few-months-old app called Cursebird, a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter (via Christina Gayle). Not entirely sure how this advances humanity as a whole, but it’s pretty fun. I ran some of my favorite Tweeps through Cursebird [...]

Tagged as: apps, cursing, fun, language, swearing, twitter

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Twitter’s language problem

by amy mengel on June 3, 2009

Last week in Paris, the husband and I went to a local restaurant in the neighborhood where we were staying. We’d been doing okay up to that point in the trip with our non-existent French proficiency. At this bistro, the menu was completely in French (there weren’t even any pictures to help us cheat). I’m [...]

Tagged as: communications, cyworld, facebook, global, language, mixi, shel israel, socialmedia, stephanie booth, translation, tripe, twitter

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