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In Lincoln's Watch, A Mystery Revealed: The First Micro-blog!

Jonathan Dillon
April 13-1861
Fort Sumpter [sic] was attacked
by the rebels on the above
date J Dillon
April 13-1861
Washington
thank God
we have a
government
Jonth Dillon

A point of fact, this is twenty-odd characters over maximum tweet length.

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