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		<title>How Twitter ruined my digital life for 2 months</title>
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Shocking.
Two months since my last post proper. There&#8217;s no excuse for it.
But there is a good reason for it, though. It&#8217;s all because of Twitter. It&#8217;s Twitter that made me stop blogging and twittering.
See, it was through a simple Tweet that we found out that MTV and the European Union were trying to build a [...]]]></description>
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<p>Shocking.<br />
Two months since my last post proper. There&#8217;s no excuse for it.<br />
But there is a good reason for it, though. It&#8217;s all because of Twitter. It&#8217;s Twitter that made me stop blogging and twittering.</p>
<p>See, it was through a simple Tweet that we found out that MTV and the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2009/default.htm?language=EN">European Union</a> were trying to build a social-network-type-website to support their joint campaign, raising awareness about the upcoming European Elections.<br />
And because my social-media pal <a href="http://zuluzulu.net/">Zuluzulu</a>-slash-<a href="http://twitter.com/wildebees">wildebees</a> and me had been saying that &#8216;09 was gonna be the year of collaborations, that our skills were finally going to converge, we wrote an overnight proposal built around existing social media tools like Twitter, Qik and Facebook Connect. <br />
And we won the pitch.<br />
So this is what took me so long: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.caneuhearme.eu/">Can You Hear Me, Europe</a>. </p>
<p>We worked our socks off (turnaround time: 1 month, in 23 languages), but it&#8217;s been a great project and we learnt a lot. Most importantly: people have been using the website in a pretty good way. And, good for us, the site has been getting mentions on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7992217.stm">BBC</a>, <a href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/897412/EC-turns-MTV-target-Europes-young-voters/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH" rel="nofollow" >Brand Republic</a> , <a href="http://www.politicaduepuntozero.it/?p=1205">Politica2.0</a>,&#8230; </p>
<p>It&#8217;s been fun. So much that we&#8217;re now thinking of a company name and a positioning plan. So we can truly start collaborating.</p>
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