Very interesting read. For me it really shows how the needs met by today's services like Twitter really go deep to the human psyche. The need to connect on many

Very interesting read. For me it really shows how the needs met by today's services like Twitter really go deep to the human psyche. The need to connect on many levels with others in our social/political worlds is a fundamental aspect of humanity. These days the modern equivalent would be throwing together an ajax handler in Erlang for an iPhone app that the fellow soldiers could all check using the work camp wifi :)