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ON THE COVER Why Twitter Matters in Lexington Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love Twitter By Rob Morris n April 17, Oprah began using Twitter. Some saw few times a month. And he (@billder — well worth following) into a many- Oprah’s adoption of the service as a milestone that was in Portland, used a bewildering array of #’s and @’s; he to-many con- OTwitter had gone mainstream. Others decried it as a was talking with folks I didn’t know; and I wasn’t quite sure versation. sure sign that the Twitter fad was about to flame out. what to make of it all. Asked about Twitter criticism (Is it redundant? Is it triv- I posted to Twitter once or twice a week through January. Part 2: ial?), co-founder Biz Stone said in the New York Times on And then I drifted away until April. Why Twitter Sunday, May 10, “That’s like people saying, ‘Why would I After listening to an audiobook of What Would Google matters ever carry a phone around when I have one in my kitchen?’” Do? by Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis on Twitter), the prominent On April 23, UK’s new basketball coach, John Calipari blogger of the BuzzMachine blog, I decided to give Twitter I’m certainly not joined Twitter, and had 1,000 followers within one hour (over another try. the most prolific or most 20,000 now). I followed many more folks the second time around: local informed user, but I’ve come to gain some insights about So, why all the fuss about Twitter? and national news sites; favorite authors, bloggers, and per- Twitter.
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