Home tweet home: How social media is giving the homeless a hand up

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R.D. Plasschaert credits one main thing for pulling her out of homelessness: Twitter. "Social media is the reason I was moved out of homelessness," Plasschaert said. "The government agencies, shelters and others were not the reason I was placed in housing."

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