Raise your hand if you’re sick of all this Twitter hype. Good. Now keep your hand up if you’ve checked out Twitter and don’t understand what the big deal is. I mean, why putz around reading a sea of dispatches from narcissistic hipsters, obsessed with what they had for lunch, when you’ve got real work to do? OK, your hand’s still up. Good. Don’t worry. Your reaction is perfectly natural for any sensible adult. But, you shouldn’t judge Twitter by your first impression.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.