Saturday 10 September 2011
Is Twitter breaking new ground?
Computer showing tweets
Wikimedia Commons/Buzzeum
By Trevor Pinch and Mark Lane

Twitter, the famous micro-blogging website, now has 100 million active users all over the world. There are more than a billion short messages, known as tweets, posted on the website each week. But is this social-networking tool really new? Don't be so sure, according to our Webwatchers.
 

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