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Mets' Jay Horwitz earns 10,000 Twitter followers for charity

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Mets vice president of media relations Jay Horwitz joined Twitter today.

His first tweet was as mundane as the next first tweet: "Joined the twitter world. My dog Tiki and cats Leo, Stan and Lilly can't wait 34 years from Doug Flynn to David Wright. I am old."

Normally, this wouldn't be such big news, but at about 3 p.m. Friday the Mets' official Twitter account tweeted, "Jeff...

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