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Photography by Douglas Adesko.<\/p><\/div>\n

At the risk of, um, tweeting our own horn, this month\u2019s Paper Magazine<\/em> singles out<\/a> our own Thessaly La Force and Sadie Stein, plus Daily contributors Maud Newton<\/a> and Emma Straub<\/a>, as New York’s most \u201cinfluential, fun, and fabulous\u201d Twitterers.<\/p>\n

But you knew that … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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