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		samstokes on Aug 27, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Paul Graham is now tweeting Nicholas Nassim Taleb (author of The Black Swan) uses Twitter for exactly that purpose: http://twitter.com/nntaleb "(I use twitter to test philosophical aphorisms/epigrams)."

tome on Aug 28, 2010 [–]

"This person has protected their tweets."

Strange.

i4i on Aug 29, 2010 | [–]

You have to be logged in to Twitter to see NNT's tweets. I think that has something to do with scraping/copyright and that his aphorisms are going to be published as a book.

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