Who’s Smarter: Dane Cook or Newsweek?

September 21st, 2009 admin

by Craig Fifield – follow him on Twitter @CraigFifield The other night just as I was done finishing up on Twitter @DannySullivan dropped a link to a Newsweek story and said: gosh, change “twitter” to “blogs” in dan lyons rip on twitter & it could be 2004 Sullivan is usually spot on so with cold beer in hand and Xbox calling to me from the other room I reluctantly clicked through and started reading Don’t Tweet on Me by Daniel Lyons . In it Mr. Lyons has many insightful thoughts on Twitter that got me going – Twitter has become a playground for imbeciles most of what streams across Twitter is junk The genius of Twitter is that it manages to be even stupider than TV forget all the stuff you’ve heard from bloviating Web gurus about…


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