Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr. Twitter functions as a real-time information network, but has become increasingly influential in the area of cross-cultural engagement. The diversity of the site’s user base and its open architecture have le
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