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Mar 31 2008   1:05PM GMT

Overheard: Water, electricity, gas and Twitter?



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
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rohitbhargava.jpg If last year’s SXSW was Twitter’s coming out party, this year it achieved utility status. A utility is something that is always on, and essential. To lose it would be to thrust yourself into the dark ages. Water, electricity, gas … and Twitter. Sound like an exaggeration? Not for anyone who has spent the last few days watching the incessant live twittering at SXSW.

Rohit Bhargava, 6 Reasons Twitter Rocks and Sucks Simultaneously At SXSW

A look at Twitter just one year ago…

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Vim  |   Mar 31 2008   8:33PM GMT

Majority of us are turning into something worse than robots. I am begining to understand the behavior of some people (not sure if they should be called profesionals) who prefer to be hooked to “tech tools” unrelated to their jobs during 9 to 5 when they should be EARNING their living! Never the less, humankind will continue to progress for, just a handful of the population do the real work!