Twitter, a micro-blogging tool that slipped a 140 character noose around the neck of the net’s geekish crowd about a year or so ago and has kept them on that short leash ever since, has also proven to be a useful kind of cattle prod in the task of shocking newsrooms into the 21st century. The very first time I showed a roomful of journalists and advertising reps David Troy’s Twittervision, (a mashup of Google Maps and the public Twitter stream of ‘tweets’) the universal look of incomprehension on the gathered faces was like a frigid blast of winter
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