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Twitter and the China earthquake

(Posted on  BBC  1 day ago)

I was beginning to think Twitter - the micro-blogging service that's all the rage amongst the technorati - was just another fad for people who want to share too much of their rather dull lives. Until this morning. When I... (visit source article)

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