To: eveyap@sph.com.sg
From: Civic Advocator

Dear Eve

We came across your article titled “Twittering about nothing” on Digital Life today. Although not many will care about people’s mundane update, some of the kei po (inquisitive) types might have nothing to do and like to go around checking what others are telling the world.

In any case, we are certainly not on any “world stage”, but we use Twitter quite a lot and have integrated Twitter into our blog site. We learn this after watching how people like Mr Brown uses Twitter.

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Hello, my name is Arthur. I am one of the volunteers helping to organize this petition.

Arthur is, obviously, just a pseudonym and not my real name.

I maintain a blog somewhere on the internet and I lurk around in some of the local forums. In the real world, I am married, with kids, and holding a day job.

I have my reasons for volunteering my time to organize the petition. Some of them are captured here.

But I am not here to write about myself. What I want to do is to explain to people how our petition is organized.

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We are now on Twitter.

You could follow us here.

We are also on Twitwall. The site is here.

Volunteers for TKL

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