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Twitter hits hyperdrive in mocking Oscars
NEW YORK -- You can simply tune into the Oscars -- or you can watch them with the peanut gallery on Twitter.
While Hollywood parades in tuxedos and gowns, grandly celebrating itself, a freewheeling cacophony of quips and sarcasm -- something like a digital, million-times multiplied version of those balcony Muppet onlookers, Statler and Waldorf -- will provide a welcome and riotous counter-narrative to the pomp.
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Twitter hits hyperdrive in mocking Oscars
NEW YORK -- You can simply tune into the Oscars -- or you can watch them with the peanut gallery on Twitter.
While Hollywood parades in tuxedos and gowns, grandly celebrating itself, a freewheeling cacophony of quips and sarcasm -- something like a digital, million-times multiplied version of those balcony Muppet onlookers, Statler and Waldorf -- will provide a welcome and riotous counter-narrative to the pomp.
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