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Inside Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Twitter account

The 19-year-old was active on Twitter before, during, and after the bombings

The strangest aspect of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Twitter account, as verified by CNN and BuzzFeed, is how normal it looks. Like many other 19-year-old boys, he quotes hip-hop lyrics, talks about his iPhone, and makes Family Guy references. 

However, his last tweet is chillingly casual, coming a day after the Boston Marathon bombings:

These are the tweets he sent on the day of the bombings, which he is suspected of carrying out in concert with his older brother Tamerlan:

After the bombings, he joked:

Most of the account consists of jokes, complaints about school, mentions of TV shows (including The Fresh Prince of Bel-AirGame of Thrones, and Breaking Bad), car talk, and advice about picking up women. 

When he did mention Islam, the sentiments were innocuous: 

The same when he refers to Chechnya, his mother country: 

As NPR's Andy Carvin points out, Tsarnaev's Twitter account had only 120 followers two days ago. At the time of publication, the count is 27,606 and climbing.

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