This isn't about Twitter as it is about social media and why it works and why you should get used to it. Lots of great examples to go with the messages and theories. Clay has help me understand more about social media in his two talks on TED, and his book Here Comes Everybody, than anyone else. He's fantastic!

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration will change the way our society works.