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Twitter trivial?

“They’re precisely right: Individually, most Twitter messages are stupefyingly trivial. But the true value of Twitter — and the similarly mundane Dodgeball, a tool for reporting your real-time location to friends — is cumulative.”

Clive Thompson hits the nail on the head as to what makes Twitter so addictive. Article from Wired Magazine, here. Via the Twitter blog, here.


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