Tweets from the Superbowl

Part of the beauty of Twitter is that it allows you to get the highlights of important national events without actually watching them on television. At least one (no actually it was just one) person used only my Twitter coverage of debates to follow certain election-related events this year. So last night, during the Superbowl, I put Twitter to the test. Could I successfully document an event on Twitter without actually watching said event? Armed with a little extra research from Wikipedia, I think I did an okay job.

Disclaimer: This post is slightly self-promotional as it is a desperate plea to get people who are not porn stars or life coaches to follow me on Twitter. 

Important! One of the players from the 49ers has a huge tortoise named Sammy. Why this wasn't bigger news than the Superbowl itself, I have no idea. 

After this series of tweets, I retweeted some things from my genius friends. 

Beyonce was there and the power went out. In lieu of legitimate commentary about recovery from Katrina, the focus on a power outage during the Superbowl instead of focus on New Orleans itself, and what actually powers the Superdome, I just said something nice and retweeted things from friends who were smarter and more articulate in that moment.

At this point, I tweeted about the tortoise some more, remembered to used the Superbowl hashtag, and then started watching an episode of Gossip Girl.

Gossip Girl became much more exciting than Twitter. I found out that the Ravens won.

I made one final turtle joke, and then I went to bed. In retrospect, I think I was Twitter-rooting for the 49ers only because publicly they had more exciting pets than the Ravens.

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