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Twitter is a loud, angry noise of people hollering all kinds of stuff.  It’s a casual free-for-all with friends bantering about their day, their work, their trials and their triumphs.  I love how open and honest it is.  Polished marketing-style people come off as fake and plastic.

Rod Sloane says Twitter in not a pub

But then we get guys like @RodSloane trying to hold up his finger and tell us to shush.  Today, Rod spouted off, “No matter how frustrated you are don’t cuss, swear or use vulgar language. This in NOT a pub.”

Evidently Rod Sloane thinks Twitter should be all formal and buttoned up, spoken flawlessly and with a genteel English accent.

In that case, Tarzan, work on your grammar.  This in not a pub, you say?  I say you’re typing like it is, and it’s time we cut you off.

Update – and of course, after I pointed this out, Rod deleted his tweet.  Nice try, but I got the image.

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