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Why Twitter Matters
BusinessWeek takes a look at how businesses are making use of the microblogging platform for marketing and promotion as well as how it’s being used to deliver up-to-the-minute news on events such as the recent earthquake in China. The article discusses the future of the application, its large development community, and its potential viability.
For other recent coverage, check out: What Twitter brings to the party.
For a well-rounded beginner’s guide to Twitter, look for: The Twitter Disconnect.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Clay Shirky also makes a compelling case for Twitter in his new book, here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations. He notes on p. 183-187 that way that activists in Egypt use it to alert each other to let them know when someone is arrested or about to be arrested.