Despite the Silicon Valley circular hype machine about Twitter for the last year, I have somehow managed to avoid getting sucked into the micro-micro blogging service. I do have a Twitter "handle" (seangarrettnow), but haven't done much with it (yet).
But, I do love one thing about Twitter: It's ability to serve as an insta-focus group. You can gauge reactions to any piece of reasonably big news (or anything else) via a third-party search service called "Tweet Scan". I wanted to see what the chattering classes thought of the (historic?) Obama speech on race today right as it ended, so I searched "Obama" and "speech" and dozens of dozens of instant reactions appeared. Here's the top several from a screen shot:
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