Twitter users, and even one "tweet" and the next, are at different places on the private-broadcast scale of social media.
The twitter user Samuel Pepys, for example, is down near the private end - he's chatty and everyday, describing everything from what he had for his tea to frolics that involve dressing up in wigs and leaping around.
He's also indiscreet and naive, and hasn't yet realised that when he tweets about an evening with his mistress, he's telling the whole world.
Seneca the Younger, based in Rome, is at the other end of the scale.
His every message is a carefully crafted nugget perfectly designed to be tweeted and retweeted for ever.
And he never links or retweets because he is, in fact, the source of all wisdom.
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["tweet" and "twitter" -- those words still say so so much.]
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