Twitter has embedded itself into our culture.
Newscasters read tweets on the air, celebrities tweet personal photos, and that weirdo from high school uses it as a vehicle to harass you.
All these disparate uses on the same platform beg the question: What is Twitter for?
From semi-serious to not-so-serious, these are the answers our friends gave to that question.
Walt Hickey, Politics Reporter at Business Insider
Twitter is an interactive record of the species where the only limitation is brevity. In light of this opportunity, humanity has stepped up and developed a comprehensive repository of puns, 90's references and @TheOnion retweets.
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Jim Search, New York-based comedian
Twitter helps people form opinions based on celebrities' opinions. At least that's what I'm told.
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Seth Fiegerman, Business Reporter for Mashable
Twitter is my remote control for the internet.
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