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2009 Word of the Year: Twitter

By David KnowlesNov 30th 2009 – 7:20PM

(Nov. 30) -- "Twitter" has been named the "Top Word of 2009," beating out such contenders as "vampire," "H1N1" and "Obama." According to the Global Language Monitor, a Texas company that tracks word usage on the Internet, the name of the popular microblogging Web site was the most attention-grabbing word of the...

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