A-Twitter

By Dee Shore

When agricultural extension agent Debbie Roos first learned about the Internet service Twitter, she was a decided nonbeliever. Why in the world, she wondered, would people want to send and receive messages limited to just 140 characters – fewer letters than are in this sentence?

But 383 tweets later, Roos – or @growsmallfarms, as she’s known to nearly 400 followers in the Twitterverse – has done an about-face.

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