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pcernie

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Teen girl blocks Twitter plot spoilers to win hackathon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22464364

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Sun May 12, 2013 1:41 pm

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Re: Teen girl blocks Twitter plot spoilers to win hackathon


	Quote: "Her next life goal is to get more Twitter followers than her friend Andrew," he said.

That might be easier now. :lol:

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Re: Teen girl blocks Twitter plot spoilers to win hackathon

Good for her.

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Teen girl blocks Twitter plot spoilers to win hackathon


	l3v1ck wrote: Good for her.

What impressed me was that she was the only girl and only solo entrant.

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Sun May 12, 2013 7:20 pm

jonbwfc

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Teen girl blocks Twitter plot spoilers to win hackathon

I wouldn't really define writing a web browser plugin that just does basic substring matching as 'hacking' tbh. Her age is in her favour but still. I'd be interested to see what the other entrants to the competition were...

Sun May 12, 2013 7:50 pm

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