Salon.com > grover http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What is going on with the Sesame Street Twitter account? http://www.salon.com/2013/01/30/what_is_going_on_with_the_sesame_street_twitter_account/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/30/what_is_going_on_with_the_sesame_street_twitter_account/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13186254 If you've been on Twitter today, you might have come across Sesame Street's rapid-fire tweets that at first seemed entirely random:

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But the social media blitz was a modern-day spin-off of the 1971 children's classic "The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover."

It began with this post:

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The account continued to tweet lines from the handle, totaling 29 lines in all:

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It might have been one of the most exciting things on Twitter today, but this tweet pretty much sums it up:

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