New at Reason: David Harsanyi on Why Twitter Is Useless

November 14, 2009

Admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, writes David Harsanyi, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood—and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte. But as Google CEO Eric Schmidt put it, Twitter is the "poor man's e-mail system"—and considering e-mail is completely free and allows you to form complete sentences, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

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