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MY RECENT confident prediction that Twitter would soon go the way of Second Life and the dodo is not, I admit, looking good. On the contrary, the networking site’s starring role in last week’s events will now only increase the pressure to tweet on those who have resisted so far; while recovering tweeters, of which there are many, will be newly tempted to relapse.

Among the latter, I see that Senator Ivana Bacik’s account, dormant since Halloween, has just been reactivated. “The news focus on Dan Boyle’s tweet has reminded me to get active again on Twitter,” she writes. “More to come . . .” Meanwhile, first-time tweeters, some with very high profiles, also continue to emerge.