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Hi. I'm Tevin, I'm 15 years old,
and I tweet.

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And that's actually why I'm here.

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When I joined Twitter,
my friends asked me,

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"Who's really going to want
to read what you write?"

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And I admit that I thought about it too.

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And I also didn't understand all of it.

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I was thinking, "What's 'mentions'?
What's 'retweets'?

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What about 'hashtags'? What's that?"

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But my mom helped me,
she's an active tweeter too.

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At last I got it, and then I got going.

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And suddenly, it was so much fun.

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What happened next was that,

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you notice that on Twitter,
you don't automatically get pigeonholed.

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For example, Tevin,
15 years, ninth grade.

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While on Twitter, it's more like
you're equal to everyone you talk to.

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Then I noticed,
that when I met tweeters in person,

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all of a sudden, you're pigeonholed again.

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Not by everyone, but it's quite common.

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But those who didn't fit in that box,

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I could become very good friends with.

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And I still am.

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Twitter also offers a great closeness

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to people that you're probably
never going to meet in person.

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Or people on the other side of the world.

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For example, I was in New York
a month ago.

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When I got back home

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I read a tweet by Samuel L. Jackson.

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He posted an image, and when I opened it,
it was snowing in New York.

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When I was there, it was sunny,
even warmer than in Sweden.

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It was pretty awesome to think

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that he'd taken that picture
and tweeted it.

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And then I can see it in Sweden,
in a different time zone too.

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A day later, Sean Lennon,
John Lennon's son, writes,

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that he's going down
to Occupy Wall Street to play a little.

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For me, being a huge Beatles fan,

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it was cool, imagining
that I could have been there too.

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Because I had been
to Occupy Wall Street as well.

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And at the same time, when you see
the Arab revolution going on, and such,

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Twitter is actually the first
and best place for news.

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So well, I think Twitter is amazing.

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I sometimes wish
that I had more time to tweet.

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Which I don't always have,
being in school and all.

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Particularly now, when the number
of followers is rising.

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I'm almost at 200.

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And I wish... I'd like
to offer them more tweets.

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Because they're following me for a reason.

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And youths who don't tweet, I'd really
like to see more young tweeters.

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Because there aren't very many my age.

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But don't worry, you'll probably get help.

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People on Twitter are quite helpful.

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Mostly.

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So well, try it, it's fun,
and feel free to follow me.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)