Did Twitter make him stupid?: Keller, Abramson exec editor news draws jokes, congratulations on social networks

Many journalists learned on Twitter that The New York Times’ new executive editor would be Jill Abramson (ironic, since former executive editor Bill Keller provoked much discussion there with his #twittermakesyoustupid reflections), and many Times’ staff and readers reacted to the paper’s change of leadership with related tweets today. Here’s a sampling of the best, with photos and other reaction.

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    [...] and, more recently, Bill Keller, whose resignation from the New York Times editorship Twitters have attributed (jokingly? I think?) to his Twitter-take-on columns — tend to conclude without much consensus. A [...]

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