“I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.”

— Margaret Atwood

"Atwood in the Twittersphere", The New York Review of Books (29 March 2010) http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/482335188/atwood-in-the-twittersphere

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