Twitter is out of control. It just celebrated its year anniversary and like so many innovative web 2.0 software apps that come out many (including myself) ask, "what's the point?" You hear those phrases like microblogging and the web going esp. I just signed up yesterday and I'm on it. As I type and numbers count down my alloted characters left I feel we've created some new form of haiku. There's an inherent poetic in the forced brevity. A lot out there is written about it and as corny as the esp thing is, I feel it, and I do see that this is where newsmedia is going. If you are a reporter or a media institution twitter is the real time.
Today I learned about twittervision and now my head is officially spinning. A world map, either flat or 3d, your preference and the map shifts around to display all the twits going on in the world in real time. All the world's languages pop up and the randomness is incredible. Humanity's consciousness is all laid out in front of you. Out of control. Inspiring.
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