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What Twitter Is

Found this through @yndygo's Twitter feed. She's wrestling with the nature of the Twitter.com social experiment, and she writes:

It's like being at a cocktail party -- and in the same room as you, there are thousands of other people milling about. Some of them are "notable" folks and some of them are standing in the corner talking to themselves. You can walk up and talk to them too -- and just like at a cocktail party, you might get ignored politely, or you might end up having an extended chat with them. Or you can just stand near them and listen sometimes and learn much.

Laura Conaway

6:52 AM ET | 01-18-2008 | permalink

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