Apologies to arafel, but I'm going to make another Twitter post.

#iranelection

It is quite something to watch people mobilizing in real time by using social media. Twitter users provided live reports of tear gas being used against the protesters, a video made by a Moussavi sympathizer, and more. In the meantime, CNN's home page still prominently ( Read more... )

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

This observation about American tech occurs on the fourth page of the article:

The speed with which users have extended Twitter's platform points to a larger truth about modern innovation. When we talk about innovation and global competitiveness, we tend to fall back on the easy metric of patents and Ph.D.s ( Read more... )

Today marks three weeks to the day since I joined Twitter. I've gathered a lot of information about it during that time. This will not surprise anyone who knows me well: if something really sparks my interest, I immediately enter full-on research mode and must obsessively devour completely immerse myself and learn everything I can until I feel like ( Read more... )