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I’m happy with recent Twitter<\/a> integration, but not exactly thrilled with how it has come about.\u00a0 If you don’t already know about the latest shame of the city, here’s an excellent video posted on Philebrity<\/a>, and The Inquirer has more conventional coverage<\/a>.\u00a0 Philebrity<\/a> tracked the progress of the story as it spread outside of the local interest by, in part, reviewing the comments posted on Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 So, as I watched the story spread over the course of the day, I saw how people communicated, a little bit of how the @ and # symbols are used, and how a story can spread exponentially.<\/p>\n Currently, I’m tracking (not the pool story, but) lots of Phillies stuff, some music stuff, a few friends and some political things.\u00a0 It’s a little like the Google Reader, but I’m able to tolerate higher volume because the content is so light – the fabled 140 characters.\u00a0 With Google Reader, it’s hard not to get sucked in.\u00a0 Even if the site’s feed is abbreviated, I still can’t help but wonder what I’m missing.\u00a0 With Twitter, I’m actually seeing the whole thing, because that’s all there is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m happy with recent Twitter integration, but not exactly thrilled with how it has come about.\u00a0 If you don’t already know about the latest shame of the city, here’s an excellent video posted on Philebrity, and The Inquirer has more … Continue reading