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alt="shaq.jpg" title="shaq.jpg" width="152" height="183" /We don't want to jinx it, but the fact
that an NBA player appears to be enjoying Twitter emcan't be bad/em for its hopes of mainstream
adoption./p pYes, a href="http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ"that's really Shaq/a -- at least,
according to numerous a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/sports/basketball/20shaq.html"press
reports/a -- and he's really a href="http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ"tweeting up a storm/a, now to
an audience of more than 5,500 followers. The best part: He seems genuine, he seems to get it, and
he seems to be having fun./p pWe can't help but flash back to 2002, when we remember watching some
Fox Sports camera crew following basketball players around as they went shopping for MP3 players.
"It emhas/em to be an iPod," one said. You know how that turned out./p pimg
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