jackwilson (True Core Lover): Criticism : The Wall Street Journal wrote that social-networking services such as Twitter "elicit mixed feelings in the technology-savvy people who have been their early adopters. Fans say they are a good way to keep in touch with busy friends. But some users are starting to feel 'too' connected, as they grapple with check-in messages at odd hours, higher cellphone bills and the need to tell *
06-03-10 - 01:25:58

jackwilson (True Core Lover): acquaintances to stop announcing what they're having for dinner."[70] "Using Twitter for literate communication is about as likely as firing up a CB radio and hearing some guy recite ‘The Iliad’ ", said tech writer Bruce Sterling.[71] "For many people, the idea of describing your blow-by-blow activities in such detail is absurd," hypothesized writer Clive Thompson. "Why would you subject your friends to your daily minutiae? And conversely, how much of their trivia can you absorb? *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): The growth of ambient intimacy can seem like modern narcissism taken to a new, supermetabolic extreme — the ultimate expression of a generation of celebrity-addled youths who believe their every utterance is fascinating and ought to be shared with the world."[72] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): On the other hand Steve Dotto opines that part of Twitter's appeal is the challenge of trying to publish such messages in tight constraints.[73] "The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful," says Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School.[74] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): Nielsen Online reports that Twitter has a user retention rate of 40 percent. Many people drop the service after a month so the site may potentially reach only about 10% of all Internet users.[75] In 2009, Twitter won the "Breakout of the Year" Webby Award.[76][77] *
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