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"But as Szwed claims, “we do not fully know what literacy is” we teach our children something we know very little of. Literacy has been viewed as a yes or no matter where either one can or cannot read but as Scwed states, “literacy goes beyond the basic assumption of being able to read and write”, we should consider the “social meaning of literacy where the roles these abilities play in social life, the varieties of reading and writing available for choice, the context for their performance, and the manner in which they are interpreted and tested, not by experts, but by ordinary people in ordinary activities” are taken into consideration"
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"Our recent post about how the majority of people who use Twitter wind up abandoning the service [ http://tinyurl.com/c3a3la ] received a lot of great coverage and feedback. We also received a healthy amount of criticism from the Twitter community who were concerned that our study sold Twitter short because it failed to take into account applications and other Web sites that feed into the Twitter community.
So, as an update, we went beyond just Twitter.com, adding in more than 30 Web sites and applications that feed into the Twitter community including TweetDeck, TwitPic, Twitstat, Hootsuite, EasyTweets, Tumblr and many others.
The results verified our initial findings: about 60 percent of people on Twitter end up abandoning the service after a month. "
