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Something immediately annoyed writer Harris Wittels about Twitter. All of a sudden it was OK to brag, so long as those brags were ever-so-thinly masked in crappy, transparent humility. Once Harris identified this widespread issue, he decided to take action by naming this phenomenon and creating the twitter account called Humblebrag--solely dedicated to retweeting the humblebrags of others. Started less than a year ago, the Twitter feed is literally adding thousands of subscribers every day. A humblebrag, as defined by Harris, is a specific type of boast that allows the offender to broadcast their achievements without the necessary shame and guilt that should normally accompany such claims. Here are two examples: @JoshHighland tweets: "Just filed my taxes. Biggie was right, mo money mo problems." @glowyjoeybunny tweets: "I hate when I go into a store to get something to eat and the male staff are too busy hitting on me to get my order right :( so annoying!" Harris also shows us what humblebrags might look like from some of history's most notable names, as well as devoting an entire chapter to @TotesMcGotes, the greatest humblebraggart of them all.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Humour Humour collections & anthologies

• Full title: Humblebrag
• Author: Harris Wittels
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781455514182
• ISBN: 1455514187
• ID: 01218328
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 342 g
• Dimensions: 187 × 147 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2012

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