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Fri 03 Mar 2009Twitter hugely popular but where's the payoff?
WHILE TWITTER has moved into the mainstream as the social networking tool du jour, key questions remain about the service.
With a reported six million people using the updating service (Twitter itself doesn’t release user numbers), the site has struggled to deal with demand, resulting in long periods where it was unaccessible. The bloggers and techies who were first to embrace it following its August 2006 launch are now expressing disillusion at the creeping commercialism and spam.
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