Well the weather in Chicago is frightful, but these sad tweets are so delightful

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If you’re currently residing in an area where temperatures are below zero, you are not alone. 

As a deep freeze settles in across America, there are so many people who are currently colder than you — and that alone should give you solace.

All across the country except in beautiful sunny, better Los Angeles (sorry New York), temperatures are dropping into the teens and below. In times like this, all the internet has is each other.

Thursday morning, temperatures dropped below 32 degrees Fahrenheit in Watertown, New YorkIn the mountains in New Hampshire, temperatures have dropped to minus-34 degrees. Chicago has been nicknamed Chiberia (which is frankly disrespectful to Siberia, where one city is currently minus-45 degreesPlease read my article). Read more…

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Library of Congress will no longer archive all public tweets, citing longer character limits

 The Library of Congress announced today that it will no longer add every public tweet to its archives, an ambitious project it launched seven years ago. It cited the much larger volume of tweets generated now, as well as Twitter’s decision to double the character limit from 140 to 280. Instead, starting on Jan. 1, the Library will be more selective about what tweets to preserve, a… Read More

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Twitter confirms it’s testing a tweetstorm feature

 Twitter confirms it’s testing a feature that allows users to more easily create “tweetstorms” – those series of connected tweets that have grown to be a popular workaround for Twitter’s character count limitations. The feature, which was recently spotted in the wild, offers a new interface for composing tweets, where individual tweetstorm entries can be written… Read More

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Study: Russian Twitter bots sent 45k Brexit tweets close to vote

 Research conducted by a group of data scientists looking at how information was diffused on Twitter around the June 2016 EU referendum vote suggests more than 150,000 Russian accounts were involved in tweeting about #Brexit. Read More

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Celebrities read mean tweets about Jimmy Kimmel and things get brutal fast

It had to happen.
To celebrate Jimmy Kimmel’s 50th birthday on Monday, there was an extra-special edition of ‘Mean Tweets’. And this time, all the meanness was directed straight back at him.
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