Black Friday Shopping Chaos: The View From Twitter

by Glynnis MacNicol | 11:14 am, November 27th, 2009

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ap_black_friday_04_081128_ssh Want to experience the frenzy of Black Friday shopping without leaving the comfort (and safety!) of your own home? Welcome Black Friday Twitterers. No doubt by next year someone will have figured out how to crowd source the best sales on Twitter — oh wait, turns out there’s already an app for that. Those not accompanied on today’s epic shopping spree by their iPhone can still experience the melee from the safety of our Tweetfinder.

“Trampled at 5am Walmart Black Frday event. I’m okay–head just hurs a bit. Got a Sega Dreamcast & a pony! I kin fly! So muchblood€”

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Nachi says:

November 27, 2009 at 3:34 pm

Only in MURCUH. They take a day that was for decades a pleasant day where people opted to go shopping.
A bit more crowded than usual – but not that bad. Fun actually. But then came the hordes, the rancid masses – w an xtra dollar in their pockets. Then it became a HERD. Then a STAMPEDE. Now the troglodytes have named it “Black Friday.” Certainly something of which to be proud! Go go, Murcuhns!!!

Magister says:

November 27, 2009 at 3:37 pm

Walmart has become synonymous with shopping? The folks in Bentonville would be pleased.

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