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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