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Extra, Extra: The Worst Tweets From Twitter's First Year


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Published Jul 11, 2012

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Ben Yakas
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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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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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