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Originally Posted by cartman
Yeah, I've seen quite a few Twitter feeds that are "historically live tweeting" the event. That is strange.
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It is, but I kind of get the appeal of that stuff. I like to read or watch the contemporary news reports of events if I can, and there's been various projects that report on the Civil War and WWII as if they were happening in real time. There's something about that that connects me to an event or helps me understand it more than reading a history book. Obviously the twitter thing is taking a different, anachronistic approach, but I think they're just going for that same kind of thing.