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Are you a Twannabe? Here's how to imitate your Twitter idol
Do you have trouble finding like-minded people to follow on Twitter? Not sure how your favorite Twitter celebrities pick the people they follow? Now you can follow the same folks as your Twitter idol -- it's Merlin Mann, just admit it -- by using a tool appropriately called Twannabe. Twannabe takes your username and your idol's username and tells you who they follow that you don't. We think Twannabe is a useful service that doesn't do itself any favors by framing things in terms of idols and hangers-on. If you just want to follow a bunch of people your best friend knows, it works just as well.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
