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Your Twitter feed has undoubtedly been clogged up by Advertising Week tweets (and maybe the occasional “Breaking Bad” spoiler). People are diligently promoting their company’s panels; folks are tweeting sound bites from sessions. We took the time to sift through all the day-one Advertising Week chatter to highlight some of the more entertaining tidbits. Our five favorite tweets from today:
Mike Monello, @mikemonello
Do the panels and presentations at Advertising Week fall under the category of “native advertising”? #AWX
— Michael Monello (@mikemonello) September 23, 2013
Michael Learmonth, @learmonth
Dude just introduced himself to me as a ‘tweetologist’ #advertisingweek
— Michael Learmonth (@learmonth) September 23, 2013
Laura E A., @leauncc
Count of Google glasses = 1, Day 1 before noon. #AWX @advertisingweek
— Laura E A. (@leauncc) September 23, 2013
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Lane Karczewski, @LaneKARCH
Advertising Week seems like the slightly uglier, less fun version of SXSW, which is the slightly uglier, less fun version of Cannes. Right?
— Lane Karczewski (@LaneKARCH) September 23, 2013
Francis, Gosselin, @monsieurgustave
“I look back, I see a bunch of white guys drinking scotch and smoking at 11am? Is technology really the changing factor here?” #AWX #nowifi
— Francis Gosselin (@monsieurgustave) September 23, 2013
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