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#140 Independence

We hold these truths to be tweeted.

Found in the twit­ter archives from July 4, 1776:

Originally published on July 2, 2010 in Politics . You may find related thoughts pieces under the following terms: , , ,

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  • Richard Bran­ni­gan

    @KingOfEngland RT: @TomJefferson Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence http://thyspace.org/declaration <- TLDR

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  • http://justblogn.com Greg Lohr

    That was inter­est­ing read!
    The only means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion back then was mail and talk­ing to the neigh­bors. I can only imag­ine what would have been tweeted if the tech­nol­ogy would have been available…oh wait, I don’t have to, you just posted it for us. Good job!

    • http://www.tnl.net/blog/ Tris­tan Louis

      Amaz­ing, isn’t it. On the other hand, I sus­pect that the way it was han­dled back then pro­vided more details :)

  • nbsp

    that’s actu­ally pretty funny :D