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Trenton: Twitter took to New Jersey on Monday to promote wearing a face mask. The social media company has teamed up with the cities of Asbury Park and Jersey City to create a meta-moment befitting of 2020, snagging users’ posts urging people to wear masks and plastering them on billboards. Over the years, Twitter has become a sort of weathervan­e of news coverage, spurring headlines that someone “took to Twitter” to air their grievances. But now it’s reversed. The micro-thoughts tweeted in fewer than 280 characters are now on “billboards, local landmarks, and other high-traffic areas,” the company said.

 ?? GOV. PHIL MURPHY ?? Tweets are posted outside the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J.
GOV. PHIL MURPHY Tweets are posted outside the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J.

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