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Twitter - it's got to be done

I met Sebastian St John-Clarke of Paper Plane Communications the other day. We were shooting the breeze about social media as you do and he was complimentary about my social media experience. It stood up ok, with one exception - I had only 4 followers on twitter! The final straw came when a friend told me everyone is leaving Facebook because it's "so noughties'. So find me at @varya1, where I will be microblogging about ... well, I'll have to work that out as I go along!

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