Tagged with 'twitter'

There is a moment half-way through “Tweets from Tahrir” – the new tweet by tweet running quotation of the Egyptian Revolution – where the reader gets goosebumps. It’s when you realize, “I could do this. I could have my own personal Tahrir.”

Our new IP-based communications systems and forms – the Internet, digital media, pervasive wireless networks and embedded communicating microprocessors – are not only changing our ways of seeing the world, they have pushed us, like it or not, into a new psychic environment of hyper-connectivity.

I think you look bored and douchey on your hand held computer device. And for all i know your blogging about the wikileak'd Apache murder's, and i dont know anything... my pops bet me 50 dollars that i will own one by the end of the decade, and for all i know he's right. Maybe i will write entire books with an old keyboard, hooked up to three or four recycled i phones?

It's over. I won. Last week I deactivated my Facebook, Myspace and Twitter accounts. I destroyed all traces. For 3 years this addiction to what amounts to a 'poor mans' reality TV that was fueling the Ego with leaded petrol, finally died of online emphysema. The Ego ran out of lungs, it looked at its friends network - all 457 of them - and said a polite goodbye.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html

I'm not going to tell you what Twitter is, as defined by its functionality, you can Google that on your own if you are one of those "technology-despisers" and are clueless about it.

Either you think it's god gift to the mediaverse or you just don't get it, but the digerati is all alight about Twitter. The user-driven newswire, still in its mere infancy, has attracted everyone from Brittany Spears to your grandmother.