Twitter Saves Megan from the Westboro Baptist Church
American Hysteria
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Twitter - A True Story of Social Media Debates Saving a Life
The westborough baptist church has known how to take advantage of technology. They created their infamous resource, god hates fags dot com. But what medium could be more matched to their quick, quippy cruelty than twitter? Magan took to it immediately, blasting out an average of a hundred and 50 viciously offensive tweats per day. One of magan's most ardent twitter nemeses was none other than kevin smith,. director of clerk's dogma, jy and silent bob. Kevin started a twitter campaign called hash tag save magan by filling her in box to the absolute brim with attempts to persuade her away from the w b c ideology.
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