In April we took to the tweet to rake up the next generation of Twitter contest, and saw our fair share of both good ideas and bad.

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In addition, FiOS TV offers an innovative Interactive Media Guide with next-generation, personalized interactive services, including free Facebook and Twitter social media applications, news and entertainment widgets, ESPN Fantasy Football, a robust search engine, and many other features.

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Indeed, Facebook and Twitter kept me abreast, with thousands of status updates from my generation about the latest breaking news.

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One hopes that Twitter--and text-message costs--can teach a new generation the same lesson.

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