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Real-time connections are "ambient intimacy," like in a village

Originated by Laura Fitton

Social media innovator Laura Fitton details the profound impact Twitter's real time connectivity between individuals and their networks is having on how people work and live. The trivial, low-level nature of these interactions is also what gives them their power. Similar to the kinds of exchanges people have in their neighborhoods, she documents how they work in creating a fabric of trust.

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