Posted AT 10:00 PM EST on 04/09/08
Harper joins the Web's twittering class
IVOR TOSSELL
From Friday's Globe and Mail
If there was any lingering doubt that the curious blogging phenomenon called Twitter has gone mainstream, it dissipated the moment that Stephen Harper signed up.
For the past couple of years, this most peculiar of communications techniques has been gaining strength in the online world, that vast yet insular community of people who love the Web for the Web's sake.
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