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It's Twitter's World: The Second, Parallel, Internet

Source: louisgray.com

Oct 04, 2009

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It's Twitter's world. We all just live in it. I just looked out the window from my home north toward San Francisco and saw the sky tinged with a teal blue that spanned the horizon. While at this time last year, you could only see the faintest blue with a telescope, over the last several months, the blue light has grown ever brighter - almost blinding, to the point I can't even see Moffett Field from my condo in Sunnyvale. I've heard that SFO has even had to divert flights from landing on its North-facing runway after sundown thanks to this radioactive-like glow emanating from Twitter headquarters, as it has proven distracting to pilots who more than once have fallen into a trance-like stare, unblinkingly gasping in 140 characters or less. And I fear even with these precautions, it's only a matter of time before something bad happens. You can retweet that.

Try as I might to not be in this Silicon Valley bubble, I can't practically go anywhere or talk to anyone without hearing the word Twitter. "I've got to Tweet that!", one person exclaims. "Overheard!" cries ...Read the full article

Comments (1)

Donaldtownsend,

Oct 04, 2009

Twitter is still quite new and up to now has drawn lots of venture capital. People see hugh potential in this social platform. More and more people come aboard, many leave after a short while. But the number of people who know how to use Twitter to their benefit grows.
Teens still prefer texting to tweets but with increasing use of the mobile web they might move to Twitter too - for one because they can reach numerous friends at once if the wish to do so and it's cheaper once they are online.