The future is Twitter

The Guardian comments on the success of the social network and micro-blogging service Twitter, which it heralds as the future of communication: "Twitter is the latest of a family of communications technologies that are breaking down barriers of geography, class and even shyness. Twitter may be replaced, but clearly a space is emerging in which most people in the world can communicate with each other based on mutual interests, not the accident of geography. Over half of the population of the world has a mobile and it won't be that long before nearly everyone has, many with a web-enabled smartphone that maximises Twitter's potential. This could be the moment Marshall McLuhan's global village finally arrives. Except that no village gossips like these social networks do."

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