The Case for Twitter

NEW YORK "In its short life, Twitter has been a hothouse of end-user innovation". Läs Times lååååånga (drygt 21 000 tecken) artikel om hur 140 tecken långa meddelanden förändrar världen. Inledningen:

The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."

I, too, was skeptical at first. (–––) And yet as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth.

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