Twitter Going Toes Up
We love it when our prescience is proven right in the marketplace. In March, we predicted the demise of Twitter, and today, we have growing evidence that Twitter will soon be going toes up.

We love it when our prescience is proven right in the marketplace. In March, we predicted the demise of Twitter, and today, we have growing evidence that Twitter will soon be going toes up.

I read something interesting somewhere the other day and the simple, arresting, argument was this: “The memoir-as-a-book as we know it is dead.”

Twitter is over. Finished. Through. Overdone and dun. How do I know? I have the evidence right here:

If you aren’t yet on FriendFeed — you should be — because that social networking site gets everything right in the proper way.

You can see the new, tiled, background image for my Twitter account. The multicolored bonanza of triangles and primary colors is mesmerizing and aesthetically pleasing, right? Or is the image effect sort of eye numbing and hard on the retinas? Did you notice the twitter logo shares the same color blue as my background image? There’s nothing to that shared hue of blue except that “it is the color that it is” — which is a complicated way of saying, “it’s a popular primary blue.”

Why do so many teens reveal the gross details of their unsafe sex lives online? Dr. Megan Moreno — assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — wondered the same thing and set out to understand why.

The internet as we know it will die a slow and elongated death as it loses its niches and every bit of information becomes merely incestuous replications of a single, original, truth: Copying is easier than Creating.

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