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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

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Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth

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"ambient awareness"

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"ambient awareness"

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The social warmth of all those stray details shouldn't be taken lightly. But I think there is something even more profound in what has happened to Twitter over the past two years, something that says more about the culture that has embraced and expanded Twitter at such extraordinary speed. Yes, the breakfast-status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought.

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If all the tweets are still around in 2000 years anthropologist will have a unique and strange look in to how we lived our daily lives. Also these little updates can help us know our friends a little better. This week one of my coworkers tweeted about getting a different brew of coffee at Starbucks. I was unaware that part of her morning routine was picking up coffee at Starbucks.

the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it

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n short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.

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In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.

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But this event was happening in 2009, so trailing behind the real-time, real-world conversation was an equally real-time conversation on Twitter. At the outset of the conference, our hosts announced that anyone who wanted to post live commentary about the event via Twitter should include the word #hackedu in his 140 characters.

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Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement.

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Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles.

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