A great comment on the pros and cons of twitter
RIck Stiles-Oldring's List: Classtweet
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Google has had server glitches before, but made this particular one relevant was the accompanying media storm. And by media, we mean Twitter, where the #googlefail tag quickly rose up the search charts of the online message broadcasting service
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The Twitter-fueled coverage reveals both the strength and weakness of Twitter. By quickly tapping into the messages of all of the Tweeters out there, Google's glitch was quickly identified as not just a problem with someone's computer, but rather a global event.
On the other hand, it is perhaps fair to say that, Google's supremacy notwithstanding, the intermittent service of a search engine is not exactly in the same news ballpark as "Bin Laden captured" or "Leafs win Cup." So perhaps, as some have suggested, the Twitterati may have overreacted a tad.
The weirdness in all of this? As I tried to link to Twitter for this blog post at 4:04 p.m., Twitter was down.
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"it's going to be messy but that doesn't mean bad." Welcome to the social web, where that's a great attitude.
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Twitter truly is a paradigm shaking technology platform, but Rankin's use of it at the University of Texas also illustrates some of its shortcomings.
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Twitter: a passing fad or valuable teaching tool?
Updated on Nov 04, 10
Created on May 14, 09
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