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Jon Russell was Asia Editor for The Next Web from 2011 to 2014. Originally from the UK, he lives in Bangkok, Thailand. You can find him on T Jon Russell was Asia Editor for The Next Web from 2011 to 2014. Originally from the UK, he lives in Bangkok, Thailand. You can find him on Twitter, Angel List, LinkedIn.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize today, and that led to one of the best tweets we’ve ever seen.
@OPCW Please contact us @Nobelprize_org we are trying get through to your office.
— Nobelprize_org (@Nobelprize_org) October 11, 2013
That’s right, the folks behind the Nobel Prize turned to Twitter — which started out as a place to tell the world what you ate for lunch and other such frivolities — to let OPCW know it needed to get in touch.
Let that reality sink in for a moment.
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Hat tip Newley.com — headline image via NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
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