“It was widely assumed that Twitter was being used exclusively by self-centered navel-gazers with an unrepentant desire to share their every thought and action with whoever would listen,” said MIT Professor Ron Sharkowski, who led a six-week study of the “micro-blogging” service that allows members to communicate in 140-character tweets. “But in at least one instance that seems not to be the case.”

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