Turns Out You Can Use Twitter For Something Other Than Cat Memes And Instagram Selfies

All that time-sucking technology we have now? It can actually help do some good for the country — if you know how to harness it. Bitching about America’s downward spiral over your TV dinner is so 2008.

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Jun 28, 2013

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