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07-05-2018, 04:47 AM
Team Twitter reunites woman with a letter sent to her by a famous poet
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Sometimes, just sometimes, Twitter isn't a terrible wasteland of Very Bad Things™.*
Indeed, sometimes the internet rallies together to help people and reunite them with possessions they've lost.*
SEE ALSO: Team internet reunites a man with an envelope full of money after he left it in the pub (https://mashable.com/2017/12/28/find-mariusz-twitter-campaign/)
That's certainly what happened when Stewart Law, who lives in Belfast, asked Twitter for a helping hand in getting a letter back to its rightful owner. To his delight, Twitter delivered — in fewer than 30 minutes, no less.*
It started on Tuesday, when Law tweeted that he'd found a letter penned by Irish poet Seamus Heaney inside a second-hand book many years ago.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/04/seamus-heaney-letter-twitter/)
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Sometimes, just sometimes, Twitter isn't a terrible wasteland of Very Bad Things™.*
Indeed, sometimes the internet rallies together to help people and reunite them with possessions they've lost.*
SEE ALSO: Team internet reunites a man with an envelope full of money after he left it in the pub (https://mashable.com/2017/12/28/find-mariusz-twitter-campaign/)
That's certainly what happened when Stewart Law, who lives in Belfast, asked Twitter for a helping hand in getting a letter back to its rightful owner. To his delight, Twitter delivered — in fewer than 30 minutes, no less.*
It started on Tuesday, when Law tweeted that he'd found a letter penned by Irish poet Seamus Heaney inside a second-hand book many years ago.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/04/seamus-heaney-letter-twitter/)
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