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It’s no secret that large corporations still have to figure out social media. Even when they’re not buttoned-up and unresponsive, they’re routinely outmatched by smaller, chattier Tweeters. We put together seven surprising comparisons between deep-pocketed companies and their offbeat Twitter competitors. Spoiler alert: a farting robot is in the same league as a $30 billion corporation.

Journalists, if you are going to spout off about Twitter, I beg you: Do some research. This has occurred to me frequently since Twitter hit the big time earlier this year, mostly because there have been frequent glaring errors on the part of “mainstream” journalists who write precious little articles about the microblogging service. On [...]