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Sat 02 Feb 2009Twitterers aflutter in Dublin ahead of global charity festival
TWITTER SOUNDS like an insult to some but to others it has become a way of life. And thousands of its practitioners will gather in Dublin and almost 200 cities around the world next week for the first ever global “twestival”.
It is being organised by twitterers, the name for users of Twitter.com, a social networking site in which people post tweets (micro-blogs of 160 characters) and follow fellow twitterers they may never have met outside of the “twittersphere” (what everyone else calls the internet).
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