"The big "P" word in technology these days is "participatory." But I'm increasingly convinced that a more important "P" word is "presence." In a world where we're seldom able to spend significant amounts of time with the people we care about (due not only to geographic dispersion, but also the realities of daily work and school commitments), having a mobile, lightweight method for both keeping people updated on what you're doing and staying aware of what others are doing is powerful."
Some feel that to even criticize the twitters as twits, or worse, is to show an old discredited way of thinking.
A writer in Fort Collins, Colorado has no sympathy for some, like me, who sometimes feels dinosaurish in trying to keep up. He writes of "an admitted 'dinosaur' in the age of nanotechnology, her views on the future of news and reporting seem about as inflexible as a fossilized stegosaurus. To survive as a business in the current economic paradigm - adaptability, resilience and flexibility - are not only recommended, they are necessary."
Yes, indeed.
Some question its reliability and its architecture, but so many are adopting it.
In Germany, literary critics are dissecting various posts. As a site called, "AllHealthCare.com," faults posts they read on swine flu: "Amid this growing global crisis, blog-blurb site Twitter has come under fire for delivering misinformation. The site has become inundated with doomsday predictions and exaggerated figures that are confusing many in the public." Film critics fear the brief bursts of putdownish twittering can destroy a new movie's prospects.
There are, depending on which post you go to, STAGES of Twitter acceptance, according to the Influential Marketing blog.
I started at stage numero uno.
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