Monday, January 25, 2010

Twitter's shortcomings

The Haiti crisis has illuminated some of Twitter's shortcomings, writes Joshua Keating in Foreign Policy magazine.

Twitter can occasionally be an effective means of organization -- Tweets played a role in the online campaign to pressure the U.S. Air Force into opening the Port-au-Prince airport to aid flights -- but they can just as often lead well-meaning readers astray, particularly when there's celebrity involved.

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