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L.C.E.C. on 25 June 2009
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Kenology said:
L.C.E.C. said:
^Twitter is for old people and is being pushed by the media. I sent them a message on Facebook.

Not to hijack the thread, but I'm a bit weary of Twitter for the same reasons.  It's so heavily pushed by corporate media outlets and that makes me very suspicious.

"Media outlets use Twitter as a source of public sentiment on issues. During the CBC News television coverage of the Canadian federal election on October 14, 2008, the CBC cited a graph, produced by the Infoscape Research Lab, of items mentioned on Twitter, along with Tweets regarding Elizabeth May and Stéphane Dion, with the majority of the Dion Tweets calling for him to step down in response to the election results.[66]

In October 2008, a draft U.S. Army intelligence report identified the popular micro-blogging service as a potential terrorist tool. The report said, "Twitter is already used by some members to post and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives."[67][68]"

- wikipedia

 

It's on ABC every freakin day... I swear they've made deals behind closed doors...