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Comedian Patton Oswalt Invented A New Way To Troll Twitter Followers

Aug 19, 2013, 19:12 IST

Comedy fans everywhere were probably pretty surprised to see some of Patton Oswalt's tweets over the weekend. Here's one:

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Here's another:

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But let's not forget that Patton's a comedian, please. It turns out that he was tweeting longer messages that, when split up to meet Twitter's 140-character requirement, left the second tweet to say something completely unreal. Here's what one looks like in context:

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This is some high-level trolling, and boy, did it get some people riled up.

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Thankfully there were enough people who got the joke:

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To read all the tweets in context (or out of context, if you like), head over to Oswalt's Twitter feed.

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