[1] MicroUpdates

GNews: Germany to investigate leak

of election result on Twitter .

[2] http://tinyurl.com/pyz79o

“Twitter, the microblogging website, is at the centre of a political furore in Germany, after MPs used it to leak news of the president’s re-election”

[3] FTmedianews

Russian internet group makes $200m investment in Facebook: [4] http://tinyurl.com

“Facebook said yesterday it had accepted a $200m investment from Digital Sky Technologies, a private Russian internet investment group, valuing the fast growing social network’s preferred stock at $10bn.”

[1] MicroUpdates

GNews: Twitter creator reflects on how

the service can evolve

[6] http://tinyurl.com/of39v2

“The buzz is definitely good right now, but it’s also potentially dangerous,” Dorsey said. “It may put us into a fad.”

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“It should just become second nature,” Dorsey said. “It becomes something like an e-mail, where it’s just used on a daily basis because it’s just the most efficient way to communicate.”

Someone commented on the Kutcher threat to leave Twitter that if he left Twitter, it would render the only thing useful about twitter, reading celebrity tweets, useless because other celebs would follow.

Obviously this person has no idea what twitter really does, how whole groups of tweeters are forming, with our favorite group of course being the news tweeters and the news tweet readers.  Celebrities hardly every truly utilize twitter outside of making a few promo tweeets and the occasional obligatory “I just peed in a cup..how embarrassing”.

Twitter’s real power comes not from the celebrities but from the mashability of the platform with multiple platforms, the ability to network networks or network a small online community.  Twitter’s power comes from the inherit mesh capabilities that enable individuals to reach out with a bullhorn or a pin-prick pitch (as my former sales manager called it).

Paul Collier

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