How to Give Hipster Twitter an Identity Crisis

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Eli Rosenberg 739 Views Mar 24, 2011

 

"Is Twitter really going to risk its urban hipster image by moving to the suburbs?"

-- Ross Mirkarimi, a member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, on arguments about whether or not to give Twitter and other companies a payroll tax-break if they move to the city's chronically underdeveloped Tenderloin district.

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