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What would Martin Luther King make of Twitter?

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From Vanity Fair:

At this time every year, commentators across the United States engage in an exercise I'll call Hypothetical King, in which we try to imagine what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say about the war in Afghanistan, the bank bailouts, or Mo'Nique winning best supporting actress for Precious at the Golden Globes. We extrapolate from his words and deeds and hope we're right but can never be sure.

I'd like to engage in an exercise that's almost the reverse of that. Instead of Hypothetical King existing in 2010, I'd like to imagine a world in which today's tools exist in King's day. I want to know what Dr. King would make of Twitter, the insistent social-media service that asks its users to describe "What's happening?" in 140 characters or less.

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