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The Facebook page \u201cS**t Academics Say\u201d shared two images, which I am passing on below. One is a diagram from Nature about the ways that academics use Twitter. The other is a PHD Comic<\/a> about the real <\/em>uses of Twitter by academics. I'll give you the latter first, then the original from Nature<\/em> that it is based on.<\/p>\n

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