According to a professor and researcher at Cornell University, tweets are very similar to diaries from the 1700s and 1800s — a social connection that records life’s moments and helps people cathartically deal with life’s issues.
It was common for diary entries 300 years ago to be short and random ranging from menus to announcements of travel, deaths and other life events.
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