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Why the Twitter Absence? Keller’s Toothsome Response

July 31, 2009

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Bill Keller has been, of late, an absentee Twitterer: his most recent tweet was posted on May 14. What’s up with the absence? Editor and Publisher‘s Joe Stupp e-mailed the NYT editor to find out, and got the following response from Keller:

“It became a chore, like flossing. Of course, I intend to floss, and I intend to get more serious about Twitter. One of these days.”

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.