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    Reporters on reporters reporting with Twitter, the 140-character version

    By Melissa Gira Grant, 12:00 AM on Wed Aug 27 2008, 655 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    When there's no new story about Twitter and all of its users — this week anyway — what's left to say? Reporters, they Twitter just like us! Today's Washington Post rounds up journalists covering the Democratic National Convention with Twitter, like former Wonkette editor and Time.com blogger Ana Marie Cox and the Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar. (Who found her new boyfriend through Twitter, whee!) We boiled down the whole thing into only what's fit to Twitter itself.

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