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Twitter Reinforces the Idea That ‘The WNBA Is So Important’

With the league’s finals set to tip off, a 2017 tweet sparked a 25th anniversary celebration

This tweet is the centerpiece of Twitter’s celebration of the 25th anniversary of the WNBATwitter
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The vast majority of the 140-character and 280-character tweets sent via Twitter have very short shelf lives, but not so for one from Ari Chambers, founder of Bleacher Report’s HighlightHer, posted on April 5, 2017.

The tweet was short, but sweet: “The WNBA is so important.”

The WNBA is so important.

— Arielle (Ari) Chambers (@ariivory) April 5, 2017

Twitter director of consumer marketing Robin Tilotta called Chambers’ tweet a “rallying cry around an important sentiment and an important tweet that has persisted over the years.

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