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Up until now, there’s been an element of utopianism to Twitter–a communal sensibility, a sense of egalitariansim, a conviction of the value of conversation. A “social warmth,” Steven Johnson calls it in Time magazine’s current, Twitterphilic cover story.
Up until now, Twitter has been a space largely free of commercial concerns, a place where people could talk and share and explore without mercenary influences seeping into the interaction.
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