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What People Gave Up for Lent According to Twitter

This following list draws from 85,000 tweets from March 7-10, 2011, and excludes retweets:

1.     Twitter
2.     Facebook
3.     Chocolate
4.     Swearing
5.     Alcohol
6.     Sex
7.     Soda
8.     Lent
9.     Meat
10.  Fast food
11.   Sweets
12.   Giving up things
13.   School
14.   Religion
15.   Coffee
16.   You
17.   Social networking
18.   Chips
19.   Junk food
20.   Bread
21.    Smoking
22.   Candy
23.   Charlie Sheen
24.   Work
25.   Stuff
26.   Catholicism
27.   Food
28.   Shopping
29.   Marijuana
30.   Beer

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2 Responses to “What People Gave Up for Lent According to Twitter”

  1. Charlie Says:
    April 14th, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    I gave up all of these.

  2. Michael Snow Says:
    April 16th, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    I had been thinking about this recently: what did those Catholic kids give up when I was in school? Chocolate came to mind [and sweets and pop]. Wow, I thought, could I do THAT?

    Then I had a REALLY serious thought for myself. How about giving up sin for Lent? “…bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ”

    Beware. I immediately fell to the temptation that flooded in. But excuses behind, this requires our serious attention.

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