Twitterography (Advocate 24 02)

Hardly a week goes by that some elderly sage doesn’t condemn social media for shrinking the brains of the young. Twitter comes in for more than its fair share of the criticism because of its apparent limit to 140 characters – almost as though multiple tweets and embedded links to webpage documents and images were not possible. True, a single, isolated tweet requires a very short attention-span, but to blame Twitter for shrinking attention-spans in Millenials puts the cart before the horse and misconstrues the way in which Twitter is best used. More...