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Bryan Clark
Former Managing Editor, TNWBryan is a freelance journalist. Bryan is a freelance journalist.
It’s not Shark Week yet, but we’re getting close. If you’re like me, and you want to live every day like it’s Shark Week, you’ve got options.
The shark lovers over at OCEARCH (pronounced Oh-Search) – a non-profit shark research group – launched two “official” Twitter accounts (sisters @Shark_Katharine and @RockStarLydia) that allow you to track each as they move through the Atlantic.
The move – which was made in response to the popularity of another shark-based Twitter account (@MaryLeeShark – which is not affiliated with @OCEARCH and has its witty tweets composed by an anonymous journalist) – helps to raise awareness while answering questions (as a shark, of course) asked by nearly 100,000 combined followers.
So, what does a shark talk about on Twitter?
Selfies.
I loaned my selfie stick to @Shark_Katharine -;() https://t.co/b8SKXRe8An
— Mary Lee the shark (@MaryLeeShark) May 18, 2015
Hygiene.
I think I might have to wash my dorsal fin. Too bad. -:() https://t.co/HUKiKeIKU8
— Mary Lee the shark (@MaryLeeShark) May 18, 2015
Rejecting consumer culture.
Sure, but I have no use for such things. I already have my @OCEARCH bling. -:() https://t.co/hc2AdVZDy1
— Mary Lee the shark (@MaryLeeShark) May 18, 2015
Grammar.
Absolutely capitalize the first letters of proper names. -;() https://t.co/sovcjcgClC
— Mary Lee the shark (@MaryLeeShark) May 18, 2015
Dating.
I’m more of a leg gal. -;() https://t.co/JZnacYXapM
— Mary Lee the shark (@MaryLeeShark) May 17, 2015
The importance of getting away from time to time.
I’m trying to schedule some time at the Cape. -;() https://t.co/zDQDi5BRQw
— Mary Lee the shark (@MaryLeeShark) May 17, 2015
Pretty much anything, really.
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