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Kid tweeters put on a show, Orwellian style

George Haines’ eighth-grade tech class at Sts. Philip and James School in St. James stole the show Wednesday at a Twitter conference in Manhattan, upstaging geeks and wannabe geeks and getting the audience to moo, baa and oink on cue.

At the #140conf, held at the 92nd Street Y and organized by tweetgenius and Hofstra University alum Jeff Pulver, the class shared its experiences of learning...

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