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#GlobalPOV Milestone: First In-Class Twitter Sesh

Blum Center
August 30, 2012
1 min

A large lecture hall filled with students, many of whom are using laptops. At the front of the room is a screen displaying a "LIVE TWITTER STREAM" with tweets related to the hashtag "#GlobalPOV".

Here’s the (totally non-substantive but totally memorable) tweet of the day:

Hey I just twittered and this is crazy, hi Ananya! So tweet me maybe? #globalpov”

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