Historical Tweets

Yes, Twitter is only a few years old . . . but Historical Tweets provides “evidence” that people have been updating their Twitter accounts for a very long time.  Below are some examples, and I’ve spent wayyyy too much time on this site hitting the Random button.

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Parents Wait a Decade to Report Missing Child

Authorities in Kansas are looking for a boy who disappeared about a decade ago, but was not reported missing until a few weeks ago.

“We don’t know what happened to Adam Herrman past ’99, when he was last seen,” Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado.

“Is he alive, is he dead? That one I can’t answer because we don’t know,” he added.

Adam was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said. At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman. The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said.

A few weeks ago, a person notified Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children’s Unit of a “concern” regarding Adam, Murphy said.

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Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame . . .

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — An Army Special Forces sergeant based in North Carolina died in Colorado ski town after a bar fight triggered by an argument over a Jimmy Buffet song playing on a jukebox.

The military identified the soldier as Sgt. First Class Richard Lopez, 37, of the 7th Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, N.C.

Police said Lopez and two of his friends played the song at the Tap House bar and two other people started arguing with them over it. Lopez’s family told The Denver Post the song was “Margaritaville.”

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I bet only a handful of my readers get the title of this post.

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