Jan 28th 2010 | From The Economist print edition
A world of connections
A special report on social networking
Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better, says Martin Giles (interviewed here)
Although Facebook is the world’s biggest social network, there are a number of other globetrotting sites, such as MySpace, which concentrates on music and entertainment; LinkedIn, which targets career-minded professionals; and Twitter, a networking service that lets members send out short, 140-character messages called “tweets”.
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