Interesting piece on Twitter and some mistaken ideas we assume about it and its properties.
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/21/147180159/why-twitter-ties-resemble-airline-hub-maps .. and the final note that twitter ties correlate to airline hubs! "Some new research throws into question things we say all the time about the Internet. The research focuses on Twitter, the service that lets many millions of people send short messages to each other from computers or cell phones. It's commonly said that social networking like this is revolutionary, that it's created new communities, even that it's obliterated geography. You can connect with people who share common interests, not just people who happen to live nearby." Apparently not quite true. -- Owen
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