Twitter Four Years On: Investing Time Wisely

ZD NET - Jan 18 - Twitter exploded into the broader public consciousness in 2009, and became the topic of endless debate in the ‘mainstream media’. The clinical psychologist Oliver James has his reservations. “Twittering stems from a lack of identity. It’s a constant update of who you are, what you are, where you are. Nobody would Twitter if they had a strong sense of identity.” For Alain de Botton, author of Status Anxiety and the forthcoming The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Twitter represents “a way of making sure you are permanently connected to somebody and somebody is permanently connected to you, proving that you are alive. Mark Brooks brings up a core value of the benefits of this type of conversational social computing in a blog post titled ‘Is Facebook A Catalyst For World Peace?‘ FULL ARTICLE @ ZD NET

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