Just recently, Stephen Fry achieved the landmark of one million followers on twitter (I have less than 1% of that). Apparently, that's the threshold for achieving a personal singularity.
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Against by better judgment, I've started using Twitter. It may be fun. Alternatively, it may be a massive event horizon that swallows my time. Probably both.
If anyone wants to follow me: http://twitter.com/edyong209
Some initial thoughts:
Twitter, unlike Facebook, MySpace et al, doesn't use…