People are sharing their reasons for joining Twitter and they range from the sublime to the ridiculous – our 27 favourites
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#WhyIJoinedTwitter
I'd already convinced all my Facebook friends to vote Remain.
The echoes were starting to hurt my ears…— Femi – REGISTER TO VOTE BY 18 JUNE (@Femi_Sorry) August 1, 2018
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#WhyIJoinedTwitter – It helps me to do my job. If you doubt that, I suggest you check out who I’m following…
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) August 1, 2018
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https://twitter.com/MrsTheresaMay/status/1024757329517010944
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I always felt what was missing in my life was to be insulted by cowardly morons who hide behind fake profiles. #WhyIJoinedTwitter
— Andy Icke (@littleIckey) August 1, 2018
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#WhyIJoinedTwitter
So I could pretty much talk to myself. pic.twitter.com/NoipZnHDtG— T FUNNY (@TLL09) August 1, 2018
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https://twitter.com/jennybennyb00/status/1024497831174922240
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I felt like I was getting too much sleep #WhyIJoinedTwitter
— Jeffrey Chavez (@area51jeff) August 1, 2018
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Because Piers Morgan wasn’t going to call himself a cunt! #WhyIJoinedTwitter
— Unnamed Insider (@Unnamedinsider) August 1, 2018
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https://twitter.com/bashy88mc/status/1024933855072079873
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#WhyIJoinedTwitter Because the locals got tired of us standing in the street and yelling random game updates through a megaphone
— UMBC Athletics (@UMBCAthletics) August 2, 2018
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#WhyIJoinedTwitter so I could express my deep seated social-economical and ideological beliefs in 140 character form
— Shaq (@kudude12many) August 1, 2018
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While many of the comments contained copious amounts of sarcasm and flippancy, there were some very heartfelt reasons.
https://twitter.com/DancingTheMind/status/1024717917521432577
To introduce younger people to the world of my youth and let them know my generation fought economic and social inequality to change our societies for the better and it can be done again. #WhyIJoinedTwitter pic.twitter.com/Tlu5B6IaKR
— John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) (@Harryslaststand) August 1, 2018