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In Your Twitter Profile, Leave Out the Punctuation

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 03 June 2009 - 09:33 AM

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#2 russjosephs

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 06:53 AM

Pretty sure it's 140 characters.
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#3 KStrawn

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Posted 13 September 2009 - 04:59 AM

PCWorld, on 03 June 2009 - 09:33 AM, said:

"Folks, we can't afford to be using commas. We're in a recession. Commasare extravagant and unneeded. Sure, I'd love to use commas in myTwitter profile, but I just can't afford to do so--certainly not on thesalary I currently make. You don't need to be an economist tounderstand the price of a comma. Commas are expensive. They cost almostas much as a dash."

What? Did you grow up in the ghetto? Commas may be extravagant, but they are free to use, there's no doubt. If it can be typed in on the keyboard, it can almost certainly be free and open source. If it's not copyrighted or food or oil, it's not expensive. Punctuation marks? Expensive? They're images on a piece of paper!

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-Kenny Strawn