“ A few days ago I wrote about the Twitter revolution in Moldova. Today we are beginning to see Twitter used politically in a slightly different way, to trigger an anti-corporate Twitter riot against Amazon. Looking forward to see how events unfold - and might soon post a more detailed analysis of the situation. ”

#Amazonfail and the politics of anti-corporate cyberactivism | Net Effect

This is a pretty good post otherwise… but I feel like this paragraph is symptomatic. Why can nobody write a post about Twitter and anything without concluding that Twitter and consumers or students or activists or whatever will clearly take over the world tomorrow full stop the end? People just get SO EXCITED