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Twitter at first seemed like a bad idea to David Parry, an assistant
professor of Emerging Media and Communications at the University of Texas at
Dallas. For those not in the know, Twitter is a service that lets you micro-blog
your life by dashing out very short notes (140 characters max) to a select group
of friends or other subscribers, who can receive them as text messages on their
cell phones. Mr. Parry’s first instinct was that Twittering would just encourage
students to speak in sound bites and self-obsess.