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Most of you have probably heard of Twitter, especially given its recent rise in attention. Regardless of whether or not you think it's worth using yourself, there is a good deal of unique information provided by Twitterers in 140 characters. It's just a matter of sorting past the stuff about someone's softball game or how awesome their milkshake is.

I found a few mildly interesting Timberwolves-related bits this weekend:

From Maury Brown (@BizballMaury), President, Founder Business of Sports Network:

Announcement on new Timberwolves GM should be coming any day.

And another one from Maury:

Marc Stein has now reported it, so I can confirm... Former Indiana Pacers GM David Kahn is up for the Timberwolves GM positiion

I don't follow the Business of Sports Network, so I don't really know how to gauge the value of Maury's first tweet. Nor does either tweet add anything to what we already know about the GM hiring process. It may be that he doesn't know anything new, but the more widely spread chatter becomes among people who follow the industry, the more I tend to believe something will happen sooner rather than later. Or, maybe he's got inside sources that he can't divulge. But of course, that's more speculation than rational thought.

And from Terrence Brown (@tbbdsp), Senior Creative of Motion Design for The MN Timberwolves &Lynx:

working on a pay the pick campaign for the MN Timberwolves using cinema 4d to do the spot. Do early next week_ monday or tuesday-will post

So, it appears that the Wolves will be doing their Pay the Pick promotion this year (last year's was announced on April 16). $5 season tickets are already available, so the odds calculation for prospective purchasers becomes a little more complicated. With Pay the Pick this year, you could end up with tickets from $1 to $3 each or, at worst, $5 to $8 each.

Whether you love, hate or are indifferent toward Twitter, rest assured that I'll be keeping my eyes open for the Wolves stuff that trickles out.

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I love the internets

Has anyone bought Twitter yet even though no one can figure out how to make money off of it?

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by Stop-n-Pop on Apr 27, 2009 6:30 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

No . . .

but there’s a little company called “Google” that is the most likely candidate.

by PoorDick on Apr 27, 2009 7:12 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

awesome...

….i love how they just buy anything that comes along before anyone can figure out what to do with it.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Apr 27, 2009 7:30 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I wouldn't get too excited

the internets is just a fad.

by PoorDick on Apr 27, 2009 7:51 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

a fad....

….contained in a series of tubes.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Apr 27, 2009 8:34 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

this thread...

….would make for an awesome episode of the Squidbillies. Early could go on an extended rant about how he’s not going to use the robot (home pc) anymore because it was made in China by a bunch of Mexicans. He could wear his “No Habla Jibber Jabber” hat.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Apr 27, 2009 9:43 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Network marketing is popular and I am sure they can use a model similar to that with twitter. Just follow how google did it.

I am underwhelmed with Kahn. Just because I want Lindsay so much.

by revprodeji on Apr 27, 2009 12:35 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

agreed on kahn...

…do not want.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Apr 27, 2009 12:56 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I tweet

but somehow I don’t think you’d find my twittering to be quite as useful.

Not unless you really need to know how “drunk” I am from one night to the next.

by TMiss on Apr 27, 2009 1:17 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

well, maybe not every night.

but maybe certain nights in april would prove useful :)

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by wyn on Apr 27, 2009 1:59 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

mayn i tweet mayn

it is wut it is mayn sum people give me shit fo it mayn but im juss like mayn hol up i tell people wut ya boi be lsitenin to an how i feel bout de sports world mayn PERCY HARVIN MAYN yea mayn!

MAYN HOL UP!

by MAYNHOLUP on Apr 27, 2009 6:10 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

i love....

…how everyone got all bent out of shape about Harvin smoking weed when the Vikes’ other draft picks had DUIs and a robbery on their records.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Apr 27, 2009 6:12 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ironically, they weren't upset about Harvey chiefin ona kill

(is that the right phrasing, MAYN?), it was because he tested positive at the combine, where everyone knows they’re going to be tested. So it was more about his ignorance/lack of discipline, rather than his partaking.

by PoorDick on Apr 27, 2009 6:43 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

they're probably upset...

…that a future pro football player didn’t know how to mask an illegal substance. he’ll have to get that one down before the season starts. ;) (Sorry, I couldn’t resist an NFL cheap shot.)

In all seriousness, I still think getting behind the wheel while intoxicated (twice) and breaking into a car to steal a stereo should have been bigger red dots than smoking some dope before the combine. I wonder how many under aged draftees got drunk between the end of the season and the combine.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Apr 27, 2009 7:08 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ha ha ha ha ha

Silly SnP!

Everybody knows that since alcohol is legal, taxed, and produced by big companies, that it doesn’t cause any problems.

by PoorDick on Apr 27, 2009 7:35 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Todd Snider...

….has a great line about that: It’s not what drugs they care about so much as whose. People still dig drugs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Fa2idVQrY

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by Stop-n-Pop on Apr 27, 2009 7:42 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

maybe percy harvin should buy himself a whizzinator

by oblivionspocket on Apr 27, 2009 9:15 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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