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Twitter actually feels like the street

Bas Leenders

Bas Leenders

13 Dec 2010
Facebook or MySpace [.­.­.] feel like malls to me. But Twitter actually feels like the street. You can bump into anybody on Twitter.

Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on on Why He Loves Twitter, and more

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