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Seven lives changed by Twitter

POSTED: 12:22 PM PDT Mar 21, 2013 UPDATED: 12:42 PM PDT Mar 21, 2013

Twitter is celebrating its seventh anniversary today. Check out seven lives changed by the popular microblogging site.

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Popular microblogging site Twitter is celebrating its seventh anniversary on March 21.

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Jack Dorsey

Twitter, tweet, social media

Pope Benedict XVI’s fisherman’s ring

Computer user with mouse and keyboard

Weiner Resigns

Justin Halpern

OTD February 28 - Gilbert Gottfried

Kelly Oxford

Twitter goes wild after news of death

Voula Papachristou

OTD February 7 - Ashton Kutcher

woman looking at computer monitor screen

man looking at computer screen

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Calpoly_Corralitos_Fire_2 — Unattended Candle blamed for fire at Cal Poly dorm

SLO County K9 sniffs out meth bags in gas tank 3 — SLO County K9 sniffs out meth bags in gas tank

amgen_santa_barbara_22 — Amgen tour rides through central coast

wings_of_freedom_1 — 'Wings of Freedom' flys through Santa Barbara

fire_drill_1 — Fire recruits train on aging structure

de_la_guerra_suspect_search — Police search for man with gun near schools

los_olivos_fire_5 — Gene Samuels, EFP Video Productions, LLC

Small brush fire contained in Los Olivos

Yogurtland in Goleta

Ventura_Fire_21 — Crews battling 6500 acre Springs wildfire in Ventura County

Ventura_Fire_csuci_9 — CI campus closed due to fire

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Paycheck, check, payroll — iStock

Companies that owe workers a raise

Moore OK tornado ireport 3 — Brenton Leete/iReport

Monster twister on the ground

Ray Manzarek, The Doors, 2009 — TriviaKing/Wikimedia Commons

Notable deaths of 2013

Yahoo headquarters — Jim Castel/CNN

Notable online startup sales

Jeans on mannequins — iStock / amete

Blue jeans turn 140

Graduates, graduation — iStock / LawrenceSawyer

States with the highest graduation rates

Severe storms wreak destruction across Oklahoma

Generic, abortion protester — Jim Young/Reuters

History of abortion in America

Mark Sanford — Chuck Hadad/CNN

Biggest political comebacks

Powerball — Mega odds: Events more likely than lotto win

Lottery winners — Biggest U.S. lottery jackpots

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