The Asymptotic Twitter Curve

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Kathy Sierra[Edit][Delete]: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve, Creating Passionate Users [Edit][Delete] December 8, 2006
I liked this article, but I liked it better near the beginning when I thought Kathy Sierra was making a different point. She begins by looking at Twitter - "A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?" - and draws the 'Twitter Curve', mapping the adoption of various technologies with the frequency of interruption. So far so good, but this then wanders into a hackneyed discussion of how interruptions make it hard to get into the flow of things, which we've read a million times before. More...