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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Twitter's unparalleled explosion in popularity is bucking the old model of young people and teenagers as the earliest adopters of Web-related innovations. Part of this may be due to tweets being a comparatively adult kind of interaction, says new Interactive Computing Ph.D. graduate Andrea Forte, whose Georgia Tech dissertation examined how high school students use social media.
