Twitter: global prairie or digital village?

Ben Bruges
6 min readJun 11, 2020

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What is happening with Twitter? How’s it developing? What’s the future? Is it the largest real-time conversation the human race has ever put together, or is it a parochial tool for water-cooler gossip?

Let’s start back in the ancient days when Twitter was a NEW THING. I tried it out, didn’t get it, passed over it. Less a tweet, more a quack, I thought.

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Ben Bruges

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