Twitter seems to have introduced too much noise into the
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Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform | Net Effect - 0 views
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The problem with Twitter is that there is very little context you can fit into 140 characters, even less so if all you are doing is watching a stream of messages that mention “swine flu.”
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Now, the lack of context is probably not a problem in 99% of discussions happening on Twitter – or, at least, it's not a problem with devastating global consequences.
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Open interview with Jack Dorsey; is Twitter useful for education? | UOC UNESCO Chair - 0 views
TweetShrink - 0 views
Dangerously Irrelevant: Academics on Twitter - 0 views
Twitter Backgrounds | Limeshot - 0 views
There's Twitter the company, and twitter the medium | Technology | Los Angeles Times - 0 views
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Prodromou compares the state of micro-messaging to the early days of consumer e-mail. In the early 1990s, the e-mail world was dominated by proprietary dial-up entities
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“I couldn’t send you e-mail and you couldn’t send me e-mail,” Prodromou explained. “We were on these separate islands. Making the change to an open standard for Internet e-mail has meant e-mail has become ubiquitous. I think that’s where we’re at now with microblogging.”
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the once-tiny Twitter has grown like a magic beanstalk into a full-fledged communications medium — taking its place alongside Web pages, e-mail and maybe even television
The Future of Twitter: Social CRM - 0 views
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Elizabeth Koh
I'm a researcher and educator interested in social computing for education. I mess around with technology for learning...