Microblogging has become too important for Twitter to rule the field.

Slate by Farhad Manjoo | Aug. 14, 2009 (Special Report)

Twitter is run by a single company in a single office building in San Francisco. When you send out a message, it flies about Twitter's servers and then alights in all your Twitter pals' cell phones and Tweetdecks. The system is fast and technologically simple, which helps explain its exponential growth. Full Story »

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Subjects: Business, Sci/Tech, Media
Topics: Internet, New Media, Social Networks
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Aug 13, 2009 - 5:30 PM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Aug 13, 2009 - 5:30 PM PDT

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