Twitter on a Vape: Puff, Post, Pollute | KQED

Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. Samantha Cole: I have never been a smoker, period. I have never smoked nicotine of any kind. Such a loser.  Morgan Sung: Sam Cole is a tech journalist and co-founder of 404 Media, and last summer, she tried to vape the internet.  Samantha Cole: There was this tweet going super viral back in July. It was a guy that was like, “no way we got Twitter on my vape.” And it was a photo of him holding a vape with Twitter on it, reading tweets on it.  Morgan Sung: It was exactly what it sounds like, a little flip phone-sized disposable vape, with a digital screen.  Samantha Cole: And everyone was freaking out about it. It became a meme format. Like, there was one where someone was putting Zillow on a vape.  Morgan Sung: In other posts, people were getting breaking news alerts on their vapes or playing games like Tetris and 2048. And Sam, being an intrepid journalist, was determined to figure out if it was real.  Samantha Cole: I’m always looking for new ways to ingest the internet. So I was
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