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Article: Curse Of The Microbloggers.(The Technologist)(Internet social sites)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- August 4, 2008
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Byline: Brian Braiker
The first thing Amanda Mooney, 22, does when she wakes up in the morning is fire up her laptop. She opens "a crazy amount of tabs" and checks in on her Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube friends. A self-described "digital native" who graduated from Emerson College in Boston this summer, Mooney contributes her thoughts to her new employer's blog at edelmandigital.com, as well as at americanshelflife.com. She chats on AIM, publicly bookmarks favorite posts on Digg and Del.icio.us. And, of course, she twitters. And twitters and twitters.
On Twitter, the service that lets you keep the world abreast of your doings in 140 characters or fewer, "you ...