Let Them Eat Tweets - Why Twitter Is a Trap
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
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Heffernan, Virginia
New York Times, The
2009

Abstract:

Twitter can be entertaining, and useful — and, really, who doesn’t like the illusion, from time to time, of lots of company? I have only lately begun to wonder whether I’d use Twitter if I were fully at liberty to do what I liked.