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Foreign Policy has an excellent piece by Golnaz Esfandiari revising downward the importance Twitter played in the Iranian uprising last year.

The day Abraham Lincoln delivered his electrifying speech at New York City’s Cooper Union in 1860, he sat for a now famous photograph by Mathew Brady. Lincoln’s stem-winding perorations that night won him high praise from political elites, but the picture – widely used and reproduced in the campaign that year -- contributed as much, or more, to his presidential victory.

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ClickZ reports today that the GOP is quantifiably outperforming Democrats in online buying for House races in 2010:

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The latest dose of literature for the snarky smart set is here. Its title? twitterature. This brief book sums up over eighty works in the Western canon in "twenty tweets or less," each one comprising, of course, no more than 140 characters.

For those of you not obsessed with the celebrisphere, Casey Johnson--equally famous for being a Johnson & Johnson heiress and Tila Tequila's "fiancé"--died last night from an apparent drug overdose. It's all very sad, of course. But what's interesting--in a horrifying, end-of-civilization kind of way is the Twittering done by Ms. Tequila during the terrible event: