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Re:A device for Twitter for the developing world... by karpj on Friday July 02, 2010 @05:38PM (#1482449)
jeb,

Thanks for the (sort of harsh) comment.

The use of Twitter in what I'm doing is not for idle fun - it's to give people a way to communicate to the outside world that doesn't depend on anyone else.

A farmer will be able to ask a question about crop rotation; a college student can ask about what it's like to attend a Western institution - a tribal leader can tell the world about how aid workers are raping women in their remote village. Right now, it simple isn't possible to expose the world to what's happening. Five billion people on earth do not have internet access, and communication is not the same via cell phone.

Re:A device for Twitter for the developing world... by whopa on Friday July 02, 2010 @06:46PM (#1482632)
> it's to give people a way to communicate to the outside world that doesn't depend on anyone else.

Well, it depends on Twitter itself, which doesn't have the best availability record.

Frankly, Twitter is a poor place to actually have an extended conversation, which all your examples would really benefit from.