Overheard in the tech blogosphere » real-time communication http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard A Whatis.com blog Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Overheard: Water, electricity, gas and Twitter? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-water-electricity-gas-and-twitter/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-water-electricity-gas-and-twitter/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:05:01 +0000 Margaret Rouse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-water-electricity-gas-and-twitter/ 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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