4.5 lessons from Twitter


	4.5 lessons from Twitter

wildcat

4-11-2009 8:08 AM

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assymetry, scaling, twitter

wildcat says:

though David Weinberger Posted this on March 24 the points he mentions are highly relevant. the most important issue here is indeed the social assymetry twitter allows, as I see it , it is the ambient awareness and ambient intimacy that is developing that is of importance here, the web's awareness to itself starts with scaling in an assymetric state of affairs.

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