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Paul Farhi, writing in American Journalism Review, says, "Twitter can be an exceptionally inefficient channel, if not a downright maddening one." And that's "it's OK to be sick and tired of Twitter." Writing on his blog, Craig Stolz argues that serious Twitter criticism is good for the service and the millions of Twitteurs who use it everyday. It's easy for insiders to get swayed by early adopter enthusiasm and begin …

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Yesterday afternoon, prior to leaving the house for a neighbor's BBQ, I was routinely adding some new people to follow on Twitter, when the rug I was standing on got yanked from beneath my feet. You see, I'm an "average" person, and given that I am, I have to follow the rules made by @ev and @biz. This rule, in particular: We believe that following 2000 people is a reasonable limit for the number of people an average …

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There's just too damn much information coursing through these nets. It's overkill, unless you have the proper tools to manage it. One of the new tools to emerge on the back of Twitter's open API is the Twitter aggregator. Dave Winer is aggregating tweets from celebs and New York Times journos. German citizens are aggregating tweets sent to their elected officials. And Sawhorse Media, a bootstrapped startup in NYC, …

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