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Tweeting Twits

I am swiftly growing annoyed by the increasing flow of "tweetshaking" that I see going 'round. Or maybe it's a "tweetconomy?" Wherin, some person or company says "Tweet about me and you can download something cool!" or "People who tweet about us can win something great!" And I have nothing against Imogen Heap or EVGA, quite the contrary, but when the people/companies I like the most are now jumping on this bandwagon I start to see the pervasiveness of these trends that, to my eyes, seem to be fleeting. By fleeting I mean evolving. I am sure tweeting will evolve into some new social networking trend within the next two years, bringing about the gradual decline of "tweets" as we know them. I'd say that's good, but I shudder to think about what comes next...
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