How Twitter changed my life, by Venkat Ananth

First things first, a big thank you to everyone who wished me for the completion of one lakh tweets last Monday, was it? Honestly speaking, I never gave these numbers a thought in the past two and a half years of my existence on twitter, tweet counts, follower counts et al, simply because they never made sense to me or curiously, if I might add, they didn’t mean much to me personally.

But such has been my twitter experience, if anything, the forum became a more than meaningful platform to sit back, spend the day over, read a lot of stuff you otherwise wouldn’t and say what you have to, because admittedly, I have a lot to say. Indeed, considering the fantastic utility of the medium for journalists and news junkies, I thought it was just imperative that I got on the bandwagon and explored it to the fullest.

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The Hardest Thing

Jane Rubietta once said,” Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.” In other words, she summed up an entire journey of a ‘problem‘ from scratch till the very end in our lives – if only we would halt and pay attention to the otherwise simple life.

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Visual Perky Tweets

This is a blog post by Dibyasundar Nayak who came up with Visual Perky Tweets after the famed Perky Tweets by BlogAdda.

They say, “A picture is worth a thousand words” and they are not wrong. You can understand something better if you see it than if you read it. Same applies for jokes too. If we check the history of jokes (I am certainly not a joke historian), we find that jokes are traditionally either read or listened when others share them. Comedy shows are the only place we see a joke (many a times the judges on the show laughing for nothing becomes a joke).

On the other hand, we get more jokes to read, for example on SMS, in Magazines and lately as Perky Tweets on BlogAdda. Regular readers of BlogAdda must be aware of what Perky Tweets are. But how about taking it a step further? Lots of people share funny pictures on twitter. Why not a Visual Perky Tweets segment then? So, here are some funny pics shared by tweeps and selected as Visual Perky Tweets.

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When the pink ribbon is tied on the black advocate robe – Part II

Aaah, so we take it forward from where we left the pink trials? Such an irony right, the color that adorns each nursery when a girl child is ushered in the crib, is perhaps the dreaded color when we think about one of the worst diseases that have come to affect us women in the modern times.

Breast cancer though associated primarily with females, is not completely biased towards them! No even cancer believes in equality!

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