claim: ‘Getting hung up on the exact nature of the records is interesting, and there’s lots of technical work that can be done there, but the main take-home response there is that the trends we’ve been seeing since the 1970s are continuing and have not paused in any way,’ he said.”
evidence: Tech writer Bruce Sterling commented in 2007 that using Twitter for literate communication is about as likely as firing up a CB radio and hearing some guy recite the Iliad.