From CNN.com - http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/04/14/twitter.study/index.html
Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, scientists say.
New findings show that the streams of information provided by social networking sites are too fast for the brain's "moral compass" to process and could harm young people's emotional development.
Before the brain can fully digest the anguish and suffering of a story, it is being bombarded by the next news bulletin or the latest Twitter update, according to a University of Southern California study.
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Considering that Twitter isn't set up to do live updates as Facebook now does, not sure how this really might affect someone. Are people going to just rely on Twitter updates for news feeds? I highly doubt it.
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