February 26, 2009
A Lesson in Character Development
In a dark corner of a bar here, a woman types a message on her BlackBerry. A few feet away, a man with a beer in hand pulls out his iPhone to check his Facebook account. At other late-night gatherings such behavior might be seen as awkward, antisocial, or ill-mannered. In this crowd, what looks like high-tech tuning-out is actually tuning-in, and the ultimate sign of social currency.
The scene is Washington's Twestival (a contraction of "twitter" and "festival"), where more than 200
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